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I have colegues that have used RAID 5 as well. It worked well for them too. If you use RAID 5 I would recomend Battery Backed Write Back Cache to boost performance. 
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I have colegues that have used RAID 5 as well. It worked well for them too. If you use RAID 5 I would recomend Battery Backed Write Back Cache to boost performance.

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I am looking for some guidance in creating the best disk configuration for a HyperV server which will host a Domain Controller and SCCM 2007 Primary site. The server will only have local disk storage and I need to know where I should place the OS / Database logs / AD database etc. in terms of RAID etc.
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I am looking for some guidance in creating the best disk configuration for a HyperV server which will host a Domain Controller and SCCM 2007 Primary site. The server will only have local disk storage and I need to know where I should place the OS / Database logs / AD database etc. in terms of RAID etc.

HyperV / DC / SCCM disk configuration

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.