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Take a look at this article. <a href="http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/c0cf4996-91db-4d27-b17f-62bec243de7f" rel="ugc nofollow">http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/c0cf4996-91db-4d27-b17f-62bec243de7f</a><br />
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RAID10 woud be ideal but you lose 1/2 the disk storage.
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Take a look at this article. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/c0cf4996-91db-4d27-b17f-62bec243de7f [http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/c0cf4996-91db-4d27-b17f-62bec243de7f]

RAID10 woud be ideal but you lose 1/2 the disk storage.

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Interesting answers; I thought their would be more of a consensus on the procedure. I have small user base using this, and think I'll go with Raid 1for the OS and Raid 5 for the other drives. <br />
Thanks for the quick answers.<br />
CS
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Interesting answers; I thought their would be more of a consensus on the procedure. I have small user base using this, and think I'll go with Raid 1for the OS and Raid 5 for the other drives.
Thanks for the quick answers.
CS

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Hi, <br />
I have an HP proliant ml350 g6 origianlly designed to run a sql 2005 app. 6Gb RAm, 6*72Gb SCSI drives. 2 other server are getting old (these run low intensity apps) so | thought I could use this server as the host for Hyper V, then guest the 3. I know I'd need to add RAM. What is the best Raid config for this? Raid 1 for OS on 2 drives and RAid 5 the other 4 drives? That was my original intent when built only for SQL.<br />
Thnks in advance.<br />
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Chris<br />
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Hi, 
I have an HP proliant ml350 g6 origianlly designed to run a sql 2005 app. 6Gb RAm, 6*72Gb SCSI drives. 2 other server are getting old (these run low intensity apps) so | thought I could use this server as the host for Hyper V, then guest the 3. I know I'd need to add RAM. What is the best Raid config for this? Raid 1 for OS on 2 drives and RAid 5 the other 4 drives? That was my original intent when built only for SQL.
Thnks in advance.

Chris



Raid setup on  Hyper V

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

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. 

There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.