3. Good news on the existing physical DC. Helps for when you need to reboot the new server with the 4 VMs. Redundancy is a good thing.
4. Since you have 6 NICs available and are not planning to cluster anything now I think I would use 1 NIC for the management of the host and 2 NICs for the 4 VMs. You could put VM1 and VM2 on one and VM3 and VM4 on the other. Or 1 NIC for VM1 and the other NIC gets VM 2,3 and 4. The theory there being they hit the RDS server and access the EMR application and SQL. Since you say traffic is light you could go a couple of different ways and adjust after viewing your performance metrics. 6. Generally speaking, however a server was to be configured on a physical box applies to a virtual one. So I think having the SQL logs and data on separate partitions is better. If the vendor supporting the database feels the traffic is light and the performance impact is low that having the logs and data on the same partition won’t be an issue, I would go with their recommendation. Again it can be changed if their initial assessment turns out to be inaccurate. Only time and usage will tell. 15 light users can turn into 15 heavy users and performance could suffer. I’m curious about their concerns on recoverability. It’s not like you don’t have redundancy and backup built into your plan. I would leave your storage as you have it. Two RAID 1 partitions and one RAID5. First RAID 1- host OS and two VMs. Second RAID1- File & data and two VMs. SQL data and logs on the RAID5. Art From: Walker, Michael [mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org] Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 1:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper-V Design Questions Thank you Art for your input! The answers to your questions are below. Michael Walker Senior Network Engineer Citrus Valley Health Partners 140 W. College Street, Covina, CA 91723 Phone/Fax/Pager: (888) 299-6882 <mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org> mwal...@mail.cvhp.org From: Art DeKneef [mailto:art.dekn...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: [SPAM] RE: Hyper-V Design Questions Just some general questions and observations. 1. The Hyper-V host server can legally only run the Hyper-V role. So no you can’t move AD and File & Print Services to the host. Ok. 2. Are the virtual servers all new servers or replacing existing servers? All are new. 3. Do you have other AD servers in the network? Generally it is best to have a physical server running AD with additional virtual AD server being OK. There is one existing 2008 R2 64-Bit Server running AD, File & Print and Remote Desktop Services. Two of the new VMs would add redundancy. 4. How many NICs are you planning for the server? I have 6 NICs - My plan was to use 1 for the host and just 1 for all the VMs or would it be better to give each VM it's own NIC? 5. If these are existing servers, what kind of utilization do they have currently? Utilization is light. There are only 8 users currently, will grow to 15 with the new server and SQL App. Most all will be connecting via RDP. 6. Your first RAID 1 configuration (300GB) doesn’t make sense. You show 300 for system, 60 for host OS and 240 for 3 VMs. (3 x 80) That adds to 600 by my math. So to answer your second question, No I don’t agree with your storage configuration. J Or are you just saying that this is the system partition and it will be used as 60 and 240. I meant 300 total for the RAID Set to be divied up between the OS (60) and the VMs (240). The problem though is 240 GB is not sufficient for all the VMs. I am thinking of changing the storage config to two RAID 5 Arrays - 3x300 + 6x300 + 1 Global Hot Spare. The first RAID Array would be for the OS & VMs. The second array would be for the File Data & SQL Data. I spoke with the software vendor who will be supporting the SQL Database and they wanted the SQL log files to be located on the same partition as the SQL Data… They said for this small site, performance wasn't an issue and they were concerned about recoverability. 7. Is the SQL data partition configured for growth? Meaning what is the initial use of that 1.2 TB and how long before it gets full. The SQL Data Partition is configured for growth. I do not know the actual size but I am guessing 1.2 TB should last at least 3-5 years. I have 6 open drive bays for expansion if necessary. I’m sure others will have other questions. Art From: Walker, Michael [mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org] Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V Design Questions Hi All, I have very limited experience with Hyper-V and am about to do my first install. Below is a descirption of my requirements and a proposed configuration. My two questions are at the very bottom of the email in Red. Any feedback or assistance is greatly appreciated!!! Michael Walker Senior Network Engineer Citrus Valley Health Partners 140 W. College Street, Covina, CA 91723 Phone/Fax/Pager: (888) 299-6882 <mailto:mwal...@mail.cvhp.org> mwal...@mail.cvhp.org Hardware & Software: Dell PowerEdge T710 Dual Intel XEON X5650, 2.66Ghz, 12M Cache, Turbo HT (6 Cores per proc) 48GB RAM (12x4GB), 1333MHz Dual Ranked LV RDIMMs PERC H700 RAID Controller, 1 GB NV Cache (10) 300 GB 10K RPM SAS Drives 6GBps Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Microsoft SQL 2008 Standard Acronis Backup & Recovery Virtual Edition Physical & Virtual Servers: Physical Host Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM Virtual Machine 1 – AD, File & Print Server Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 2 - SQL Server - MS SQL 2008 R2 Standard Minimum Requirements: 2 CPU, 24 GB RAM, 1200 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 3 - App Server - MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB HD Space Virtual Machine 4 - Remote Desktop Server - MS Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Minimum Requirements: 1 CPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB HD Space Usage: There will be 15 users using RDP to access their EMR Application called MD Office. Each TS Session requires between 50 & 200 MB. Of the 15 Users there may be 5 using MS Office. Storage Configuration: 10 x 300GB Drives 2 x 300GB (RAID1) - 1 300 GB Virtual Drive System Partition – 300 GB Host OS – 60 GB 3 VMs – 240 GB 2 x 300GB (RAID1) - 1 300 GB Virtual Drive VM 1 Partition - 60 GB File & Data Partitioin - 200 GB SQL Logs Partition – 40 GB 5 x 300GB (RAID5) - 1 1200 GB Virtual Drive SQL Data Partition – 1200 GB 1 x 300GB (Hot Spare) QUESTIONS: With the above minimum requirements in mind - 1. Would you keep VM1 for AD, File & Print or would you eliminate it and run AD, File and Print on the Physical Host allowing me to use my 4th license for an additional Remote Desktop Server. 2. 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