Hi Everyone,
I have recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge T620 with the following specs:
Intel Xeon E-5 2630v2
16GB Ram
2x300GB Raid 1
4x600GB Raid 5
I setup the host OS on the Raid 1. I then created 2 VM's, both with 64GB fixed VHDX's for the OS. VM1 will be the DC so I won't do anything different with that (unless I need to). VM2 will house our medical billing software, SQL and also be a Terminal Server for 5 users.
How should I setup the VHD's that will house the applications such as SQL, billing software etc?
1. Should I create another fixed disk for the Applications (billing software and SQL)? And leave the guest OS's on there own fixed disk? If I should create a fixed disk for the applications, should I make it the for the rest of the space on the Raid 5 or just big enough for the applications that I need it for? The SQL databases only take up around 50GB's.
2. Right now the 2 64GB fixed VHD's are on the Raid 5 in a folder named Virtual machines, should I move those 2 VHD's to the Raid 1 or leave them on the Raid 5? Or should I split them up?
How would you go about setting up this environment? Also, should I use pass through disks vs fixed disks?
Thank you in advance for the help, I really appreciate it.