We are in process of Planning Exchange 2010 deployment for ONLY 20 users and going from physical to Hyper-V servers. I’m NEW to Hyper-V. Current environment: Windows 2008 forest, all physical servers: Exchange 2007, SQL 2008R2, DC, and other special purpose servers.
New Hardware:
DELL PowerEdge R720 server with following configuration:
Processor: Two Intel XEON E5-2640, 2.5GHz, 1333MHz 15M Cache Turbo, 6 cores each,
hyperthreading disabled
RAM: 128 GB
Hard disk: (2) 146 GB 15K Serial Attached SCSI 6Gbps
(6) 1TB 7.2K Near-Line SAS 6Gbps
New environment: Virtualized Exchange 2010 and SQL servers. Install of Exchange 2010 will be on one VM, co-exist with Exchange 2007 for very short time (less than a week). The SQL server will also be virtualized, less than 500MB of data.
Host OS: Windows 2008R2, Enterprise, on 146GB drives, only Hyper-V role enabled, nothing else.
Guest OS: Windows 2008R2, Enterprise with Exchange 2010
Guest OS: Windows 2008R2, Enterprise with SQL 2008R2
QUESTIONS:
I’m struggling on how to configure the (6) 1TB drives to meet the best practices for the Exchange 2010 and SQL virtual machines? I do have $ to buy additional hard drives if necessary and have room in server.
What disk configuration should I create?
RAID1 (1TB) configuration for all the Virtual Machine vxd’s, fixed size?
RAID1 (1TB) for Exchange data, (Mailbox with 50GB, Hub, Client Access)?
Where should the Exchange log files go?
Since I’m in such a small environment can the Entire Exchange 2010 install be put on one VM on a RAID1 spindles? What about SQL and 500MB of data?
I do have2.5TB of data…file storage; more servers will be virtualized in the future
Thanks,
Robert
