I'm building / buying a new server was planning on going virtual.
Dual xeon 2620 v3 with 64 GB ram we have about 15 users and 14 remote users.
Main server 2008 / 2012 SQL
2nd Server 2008 / 2012 File storage
3rd Server / Terminal Services / Citrix (may not be needed still evaluating)
Here is my concern.
HyperV server installed on a mirror dive 120 GB SAS Raid 0 (i've been informed that this is unnecessary as hyper V doesn't require much space and that having it on an SSD would only improve on the boot up speed for the actual hyper V server, hypervisor, there fore even if I put this on a slow 5400 RPM drive this would only affect the initial boot up of hyperV (which I don't' plan on rebooting often) is this true, would the page file be an issue?
I was then planning on having 600 sas 15K (x4) raid 10, I would use this for the datastores of the 3 server on these drives.
I've been informed that the I/O on these drives will affect performance and that each server should be on it's own separate physical drives (raid volume).
Is this common? Should I be using separate HD's for each virtual machine?
nambi