SharePoint 2013 Architecture Concepts Help

I'm mainly a SharePoint 2010 administrator. Recently I've taken on a role that requires many SharePoint hats including figuring out to architect our SharePoint 2013 environment. I'm the only one here that knows anything about SharePoint that
is dedicated to this project - and while I'd like to think I know a lot, I'm not an architect. I've been researching and researching, and I have a few questions:
- SAN? (or DAS or NAS) Is it necessary? How does this relate to the storing of databases in SQL?
- We are going to have about 25,000 users total, 7,000 concurrent, moderate use of search, and 11 department site collections (needs to be 3 content databases to segregate data for 2 departments). Should I follow diagrams for a medium or large farm?
- I'm looking at the diagrams for a virtualized environment and they have more WFEs than the non-virtualized, why is this? Is there a reason why they have two servers on one host?
- It says 500 GB for index storage, is this per database or total? I'm used to auto-generating content databases as you configure, I've never created the database first then assigned it to the service. Do all the search functions go into this
single 500GB databse?
Thank you so much for your help in advance! Please let me know if you'd like to know what I have for architecture so far...

Depending on your needs for High Availability, some approaches require that the SQL Servers are connected to the same SAN/NAS via Fiber Channels. The idea is that your database files live on the SAN/NAS and can be served by more than one SQL Server. Therefore,
if one SQL Server goes down for any reason, the other can step in. More information on SQL Server 2012 High Availability:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190202.aspx
There are a lot of factors that play into deciding the topology that would best fit your use-case. Things to take into consideration include types of activities (publishing/reading or highly collaborative), response time requirements, availability requirements,
patterns of usage (spikes and distribution). The good news is that you can convert a Medium topology into a Large topology with additional hardware when needed.
They have two servers on a single host for redundancy in the case that 1 of the VMs goes down. With virtualization there are little arguments against taking advantage of this with very minimal trade-off in performance.
The Search index lives on the file system and the size will highly depend on what type of content you are crawling. (Example, a Word file has a lot more data to index than a JPEG image with only the metadata). The 500GB starting point is for the farm.
Dimitri Ayrapetov (MCSE: SharePoint)

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SQL Server 2014
SQL Server 2014
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