Tech Tested

I want to add in some content for people who might be building their own homelabs. I have always used lab environments for tinkering and testing, but it wasn't until a few months ago where I made the major leap of buying my own hardware.
I have a 2 R630 DELL 8 x 2.5'' POWEREDGE 2X E5-2680V4 32GB RAM IDRAC ENT & NDC 2X 495W PSU and I have to say, I found the iDRAC capabilities on these servers to be exceptionally useful when it comes to interfacing with the hardware. There is much to discuss when it comes to the initial setup, but I found that Keith Barkers Youtube channel was exceptionally useful and I followed his tutorials rather religiously until he started to create nested environments. Instead of creating a nested environment, I have two attached hosts with plenty of storage.
When it came to storage, I had a few design choices that I wanted to share with you. For each host, I bought a Western Digital Blue 500GB Solid State Drive 2.5" SATA III 6Gb/s SSD WDS500G2B0A. I used this as the primary storage in accordance with Keith's videos. I wanted to add in more storage for my own purposes so I bought 10 x CISCO A03-D1TBSATA 1TB 7.2K 6G 2.5INCH SATA HDD and installed them in 10 x 8FKXC G176J DELL 2.5" HARD DRIVE CADDY TRAY FOR R620 R630 R720 R730 POWEREDGE.
From here, the question became, "what do I do to make this storage available in vCenter?":
First, I went into iDRAC on my host and into the storage tab > virtual disks > create
Here I chose to make a single virtual disk with all of my physical HDDs. I chose Raid 5 because it was a nice balance of cost and performance. My other consideration was Raid 10, but I opted against it because it would cut my effective storage in half.
From here, go into vCenter and under the host > configure > storage adapter > resan storage:
You can then click on action storage > select "new datastore"
I chose VMFS and kept all the subsequent default values.
Hope this helps!