I agree with Jim. I've never done it for security reasons, it's always been to keep disk space separated. You can grow disk more easily in a virtual environment, but what happens when an app goes sideways in the middle of the night and starts chewing disk space? If it shares disk with your OS you get that wonderful midnight call that your server is down. If you split the app off then you can often just come in the next morning to a full app drive. Just some extra peace of mind. Tim
-----Original Message----- From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 8:21 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Two Drives vs. One on a Server Good point. Although with virtualization, the drive can be expanded at any time, so that wouldn't so much of a factor now... -----Original Message----- From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:04 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Two Drives vs. One on a Server I never really did it for security reasons. I did it because if data is on another drive it can't fill up the OS drive....or if I needed to expand data storage I didn't have to rebuild the OS. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 9:01 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Two Drives vs. One on a Server > > So, I've been playing around with Hyper-V for a few days, I've created > a > couple of test servers, and I'm ready now to create a "real" one. > > One thing I'm not sure of is whether I should create one drive or two > for the servers. A blog post from a member of Microsoft's Hyper-V team > recommend two as a matter of best practice--one for the OS, and the > other for data. We've always split up our physical servers this way, > since the Windows NT days. My question is, is it still necessary? If > so, > why? > > Back in the day, security was a big reason. For instance, if you had a > web server serving content on your D: drive and the server was hacked > making the whole drive accessible, the OS couldn't be touched since it > was on the C: drive. > > With the current versions of Windows Server and IIS, is this still a > consideration? > > > > > John Hornbuckle > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > 318 North Clark Street > Perry, FL 32347 > > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
