Hi there,
I've two servers http://www8.hp.com/emea_middle_east/en/products/proliant-servers/product-detail.html?oid=5195898 with 128GB Memory and 4 Gigabit Ethernet.
I want to run multiple AD instances, File Server, SQL, Exchange & Sharepoint on it. Data will be on a SAN. We've around 100 users. Other than Exchange, rest of the roles have minimal load. e.g., SQL is only for supporting management and monitoring systems. is it OK if I run each VM on RAID 0 disk? My theory is that if a disk fails, the service will resume from the other server. It's difficult to assess the current load of servers as there are many under different domains and stand alone systems as well. My plan is to consolidate them all. Running Hyper-V from USB is a recommended practice or is it supported only development systems? It would help me use one more disk for VM if I can run Hyper-V from USB in production. I understand that AD 2012 R2 is fully supported on VMs now. The old recommendation of having the primary DC on a physical server still valid? Our is a small setup.
I'm sure many of you have gone through these scenarios. Please share your experiences. Also if there are easy to follow books or articles on these subject, please point that out too.
Thanking you,
Shereef