I have:
- 2x 160gb sata drives, looking to RAID (Intel controller on-board)
- 2x 320gb sata drives, looking to RAID (Intel controller on-board)
- 2x 500gb sata drives, looking to RAID (Intel controller on-board)
- 1x 250gb sata drive (for OS) on the 6-port SATA PCI card, no RAID
My ASUS Maximus Formula board has 6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports that supports RAID 0,1,5,10. Plus I've installed a 6-port SATA II PCI host card w/RAID 4x internal connectors SATA and 2x external eSATA connectors that supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD.
(I will be getting 2 1TB drives in the future to add but this is what I have to work with for now.)
I am building a training/practice lab on this server running Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V to provide a real-world, hands-on platform so I can follow along and apply the knowledge and skills learned in the modules for Window 7 Client - 6292A and Planning and Managing Windows 7 Desktop Deployments and Environments modules for 6294A courses.
This lab has about 300 Gb of VMs space which I have built on another machine using VirturalBox. This server will be using Hyper-V for this lab and Windows 2008 R2 which will be installed on the 250 Gb SATA drive.
Can any one give me some ideas on how I could set this up. I would like to RAID the VM drive for performance and have some form of redundancy with the others.
I figured a RAID 10 being I have little space for redundancy for VM drive.
Or,
RAID 0 = 2x 320 Gb = VMs
RAID 1 = 2x 500 Gb = Backup VMs & OS for redundancy
RAID 1 = 2x 160 Gb = Backup VMs & OS for redundancy
Please advise...
wrwells2,
- 2x 160gb sata drives, looking to RAID (Intel controller on-board)
- 2x 320gb sata drives, looking to RAID (Intel controller on-board)
- 2x 500gb sata drives, looking to RAID (Intel controller on-board)
- 1x 250gb sata drive (for OS) on the 6-port SATA PCI card, no RAID
My ASUS Maximus Formula board has 6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports that supports RAID 0,1,5,10. Plus I've installed a 6-port SATA II PCI host card w/RAID 4x internal connectors SATA and 2x external eSATA connectors that supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 0+1, JBOD.
(I will be getting 2 1TB drives in the future to add but this is what I have to work with for now.)
I am building a training/practice lab on this server running Windows 2008 R2 with Hyper-V to provide a real-world, hands-on platform so I can follow along and apply the knowledge and skills learned in the modules for Window 7 Client - 6292A and Planning and Managing Windows 7 Desktop Deployments and Environments modules for 6294A courses.
This lab has about 300 Gb of VMs space which I have built on another machine using VirturalBox. This server will be using Hyper-V for this lab and Windows 2008 R2 which will be installed on the 250 Gb SATA drive.
Can any one give me some ideas on how I could set this up. I would like to RAID the VM drive for performance and have some form of redundancy with the others.
I figured a RAID 10 being I have little space for redundancy for VM drive.
Or,
RAID 0 = 2x 320 Gb = VMs
RAID 1 = 2x 500 Gb = Backup VMs & OS for redundancy
RAID 1 = 2x 160 Gb = Backup VMs & OS for redundancy
Please advise...
wrwells2,