Using a Dell 2950 with a RAID 1 for the 2008 system and RAID 5 (4 or 5 drives) total space about 1TB. It had 2 Quad core processors and 32GB of RAM. I had the system up running only Hyper-V and 6 VMs all on the RAID 5 with few issues attributable to hardware. The VMs were AV, SQL, AD, IIS/Print/FTP, File type of machines. Backups were done using native 2008 image based backup to a 1TB USB drive.
I would think that you should be fine with the RAID 5. I would put the system on a separate RAID 1 60GB drive if it was me. I hate putting VM's on the same drive as the OS. It works but I still hate it. Jon On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Ben N <bennordlan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a new Dell R710, with 10 (2.5inch) x 300GB SAS drives. (dual quad > core with 48GB RAM) > > The Hyper-V guests i'll be putting on here are really going to just be old > physical servers that i want to retire. So not much production use. There > will be a few important servers, like some Win2k3 IIS SMTP servers, but not > too much traffic. Also a test domain that has Exchange on it with only 2 > active mailboxes. stuff like that. > > Hard Drive config? I was thinking of doing Raid 10 initially with all > drives, but i'd be without a hot spare. Not liking the idea of getting a > spare ahead of time or waiting for one if i didn't. I was then thinking of > Raid 5 with a hotspare.. But i am nervous about the possible write > bottleneck. > I just want to get as much space as i can, but not suffer the wrath of my > guests. > > Has anyone had a similar config like this with Hyper-V and done Raid 5 with > SAS drives? > > -BenN > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
