Hardware Requirement for SQL Server 2012 Cluster

Hi All,
We are going to share System Requirement document with the customer and one of the technical staff from Customer has request us to provide Microsoft Disk space requirement at least for below 2 section and why?
Quorum & MSDTC (Both will be SAN and what will be their RAID type)
Please share your advice.
Regards, Sachin

Hello,
The quorum disk needs only to have a few MB to hold the file used for arbitration. Normally if you're needing a disk vote, it can be extremely small (100MB or less is what most SANs can do, some can only do 1 GB or greater). The actual file size is a few
KBs.
MSDTC holds the DTC logs, so this will be sized to how much logging and usage of MSDTC is needed and used. If you're not using distributed transactions then it doesn't even need setup.
-Sean
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