- Mar 31, 2014
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Hello all!
I have a particular implementation setup I am going for with my work network. I'm hoping to get some advice on a few things. We are currently running a single Win2003 Standard server that I am looking to upgrade. I am planning to move us to Win2012 Standard R2. I want to use two physical servers, each running Hyper-V hosts. On the first server one of the VMs will be my domain controller, DHCP, DNS servers. The first VM on the second physical server I will install a print server, file server, and maybe DFS to put the various shared locations into logical DFS namespaces. The second physical server will have enough drive space to store backups from client computers and (potentially) some system image backups of the more important computers. Each server will have a second VM that is a Hyper-V replica of the first VM. My overall goal is to have some high availability and a backup solution with redundancy. I may encapsulate the backup redundancy with external storage later on, but that is something else to consider down the road.
My main question is with regards to how I should setup my storage. The operating system installations themselves don't need to be hefty on the subject of storage. I won't be using much in terms of applications on the server. For backups, I'm making an educated estimation that I will start off with about 1TB (or less) of storage that will slowly grow to roughly 2 - 2.5 TB in size.
So the main question is:
- What kind of hard drive setup should I use to give room for a Hyper-V host, a primary VM and a replica VM, imagining that I will never need to go beyond the 3TB mark? Should I setup a couple small drives for the operating system and a larger one of the backups? Does this even matter since (presumably) the hard drives are going to be virtual?
Also, for what it is worth I plan to be using an ASAU 990FX Sabertooth R2.0 motherboard with a AMD FX-8320 CPU and 16GB of RAM. I don't think I will have issues with virtualization there, but if anyone can see a problem with that, please let me know.
Thanks to any and all who can provide some input. Forgive me if my question seems like a rookie question due to the subject. I haven't had to deal with server technology for years, so I am a bit rusty....and I've never worked with Hyper-V before. Searching the internet on the subjects have only half-answered some of my questions.
Again, many thanks in advance.
I have a particular implementation setup I am going for with my work network. I'm hoping to get some advice on a few things. We are currently running a single Win2003 Standard server that I am looking to upgrade. I am planning to move us to Win2012 Standard R2. I want to use two physical servers, each running Hyper-V hosts. On the first server one of the VMs will be my domain controller, DHCP, DNS servers. The first VM on the second physical server I will install a print server, file server, and maybe DFS to put the various shared locations into logical DFS namespaces. The second physical server will have enough drive space to store backups from client computers and (potentially) some system image backups of the more important computers. Each server will have a second VM that is a Hyper-V replica of the first VM. My overall goal is to have some high availability and a backup solution with redundancy. I may encapsulate the backup redundancy with external storage later on, but that is something else to consider down the road.
My main question is with regards to how I should setup my storage. The operating system installations themselves don't need to be hefty on the subject of storage. I won't be using much in terms of applications on the server. For backups, I'm making an educated estimation that I will start off with about 1TB (or less) of storage that will slowly grow to roughly 2 - 2.5 TB in size.
So the main question is:
- What kind of hard drive setup should I use to give room for a Hyper-V host, a primary VM and a replica VM, imagining that I will never need to go beyond the 3TB mark? Should I setup a couple small drives for the operating system and a larger one of the backups? Does this even matter since (presumably) the hard drives are going to be virtual?
Also, for what it is worth I plan to be using an ASAU 990FX Sabertooth R2.0 motherboard with a AMD FX-8320 CPU and 16GB of RAM. I don't think I will have issues with virtualization there, but if anyone can see a problem with that, please let me know.
Thanks to any and all who can provide some input. Forgive me if my question seems like a rookie question due to the subject. I haven't had to deal with server technology for years, so I am a bit rusty....and I've never worked with Hyper-V before. Searching the internet on the subjects have only half-answered some of my questions.
Again, many thanks in advance.
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