Short answer: separate VHDX. As a general rule I keep OS drives /VHDX’s separate from everything else, even if it’s virtualized and sitting on the same disk subsystem. Easier if you have to restore/move things around.
-Dave Lum From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Norton Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 11:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Guest disks on Hyper-V 2012 R2 I'm just getting my feet wet with virtual technology. I'm planning to migrate a physical file server that contains over 4 million Word, Excel and PDF files to a virtualized instance. Roughly 100 users access these files regularly on a daily basis. Should the guest OS be on a separate vhdx from the file storage or is it acceptable for the whole thing (OS and 4 million files) to reside on a single vhdx? Thanks. Steve
