What are the specs of your physical server today? Server 2003 SP2, Xeon 2.33 Ghz, 4 GB RAM What is the relative performance of that server today? Performance is fine. What are the specs of the virtual host server and its storage? Dual Xeons, 64-96 GB RAM. May host up to two other VMs eventually. Not sure on storage yet, either Dell NAS or maybe iSCSI.
What are you proposing as the specs for the VM? 2 TB of fixed storage space for OS and files. Probably RAID 6. 8-12 GB RAM. Thanks. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew S. Baker" <[email protected]> To: "ntsysadm" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2014 4:55:31 PM Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Guest disks on Hyper-V 2012 R2 What are the specs of your physical server today? What is the relative performance of that server today? What are the specs of the virtual host server and its storage? What are you proposing as the specs for the VM? ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market… On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 2:06 PM, Steve Norton < [email protected] > wrote: 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
