Hey everyone,
Still pretty green to Hyper-V 2012, and have a few questions I'm hoping someone can help me with;
1) What is the recommended disk space requirement for Hyper-V 2012 itself? I'm looking to get a Sata DOM which are expensive and generally very small on the capacity side of things. Would 4GB be enough, or should I get 8GB? The cost difference between 4Gb and 8Gb is significant, so would appreciate any Microsoft links showing disk space recommendations for Hyper-V 2012.
2) I plan on having all VM system virtual disks located on SSD. For backup I'm planning on taking a Volume Snapshot of the partition my VM's are located on and storing it on a regular spinning media Sata HDD. Just wondering, will the use of this regular Sata HDD slow performance of the VM's in anyway.
3) I seem to remember a paper from VMware showing that for their products the performance difference between fixed and dynamically assigned disk space was very narrow these days. Is there any significant performance benefit to using a fixed disk over dynamic in Hyper-V 2012?