Server has Write caching enabled, as well as Dell puts in batteries on the Raid as well just in case. Thanks for the input everyone, if anyone else wants to chime in, i'd welcome it.
-BenN On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Glen Johnson <gjohn...@vhcc.edu> wrote: > I’ve got 3 HP/Compaq boxes running hyper-v. > > Raid 1 for the OS, and raid 5 for the vms. As long as the write caching is > enabled, performance has be pretty good. > > If that write caching is not on, pretty dog slow. > > > > *From:* Ben N [mailto:bennordlan...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, July 16, 2010 5:52 PM > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Server raid config ponderings > > > > 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/> ~
