If they ain't broke, they're fixed! On Feb 19, 2014 7:09 PM, "Andrew S. Baker" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >>> >> >> >> >
