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I'm setting up 3 small workgroup (only 10 users) Hyper-V guest file servers on a Windows 2008 Enterprise Hyper-V host server. &nbsp;Should I set up separate OS and data drives (vhd) &nbsp;or is it OK to have a single drive (VHD) / single partition for each &nbsp;Each Hyper-V guest server? &nbsp;Thanks!
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I'm setting up 3 small workgroup (only 10 users) Hyper-V guest file servers on a Windows 2008 Enterprise Hyper-V host server.  Should I set up separate OS and data drives (vhd)  or is it OK to have a single drive (VHD) / single partition for each  Each Hyper-V guest server?  Thanks!

Should I set up a separate OS Drive on a Hyper-V Guest 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.

Windows Server 2008

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.