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03.31.2008 at 11:26AM PDT, ID: 23283461
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Virtual Machines - Raid 1 or Raid 10 - which is better given this particular scenerio?

Asked by 4mrhodes in Storage Technology, Networking Hardware Firewalls, Microsoft Virtual Server 2005

I have a Windows Server 2008 (RTM) box that I am setting up for my DMZ

I plan to use the following configuration:
Windows Server 2008 x64 w/ Hyper-V parent OS
Virtual Machines:
2008 w/ SQL 2005
2008 w/Exchange 2007 (Edge Transport only)
2008 w/ IIS 7 and Coldfusion 8

The system has 3 physical NICS and 4 physical SATA drives (raptor 150gb).
(note: current raid controller is not a true hardware raid)

Would I be better off with one RAID 10  setup using all 4 drives and then a small partition for the Parent OS (Host OS) and create the child OS virtual drives on the remaining partition (or in each their own partition).

Or Two Raid 1 pairs.  If this is the better way to go - where should I put the VMs (2 raid 1 Pairs) 3 VMs and a HOST - what goes with what.

Also welcome suggestions on the NIC configuration - my firewall (Astaro 220) has multiple ports so I was planning to have the NICS physically set up as follows (virtually each nic would behave like a switch for what ever VMs I wanted to plug into it)
NIC1 HOST and IIS/Coldfusion
NIC2 SQL 2005
NIC3 Exchange 2007 (Edge Transport)

SUggestions on NIC or HD configurations are most welcomed.
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