2TB of fixed storage?!?
*ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> *Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market...* On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 7:28 AM, Steve Norton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------ > *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* <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 >> > > >
