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I have a Proliant DL380 G6 server 32 GB of memory with two quad core processors. I am going to install windows 2012 and want try my hand at running Hyper V on it. I have some familiarity with VMWare but not with Hyper V. Can someone me to some How To on installing and configuring it?
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Thanks for the info. All I have is on board storage, 10 x 300GB SAS drives on this server 4 on board NICs. Will that be sufficient for a couple of VMs
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Yes. You can easily manage to create 2 VM's out of the resources you have.

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Thanks for all the useful info. Much appreciated. I will have a go at it.
One last question. Being that all I have is 10 x 300gb local drives do I create one large raid drive and use it to create virtual drives? How large a drive should I create for the vm disk files? What kind of strategy should I use for my drive configuration?
Well it depends on how much disk space you want to assign to a VM. You are going to use the space from your local storage.

Choose fixed disk or dynamically expanding disks which starts with small size and grows as you use.

Consider creating a bigger partition and create VHD's on this partition. The default destination for saving virtual disks is C:\Users\Public\Documents\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks

--Raghav.
The setup we work with is indicated in my EE article.

We set up one RAID 6 array with two logical disks:
LD0: 75GB for the host OS install
LD1: Balance GB/TB for VMs
OK. Thanks a lot for the info.
I only have the option for raid 1,10 and 50. I guess I will create one raid 10 array and just create logical disks. Hopefully this will work.
If I remember right, that particular RAID setup needs a license key to unlock RAID 6 functionality. It is worth looking into.
Hmmm. Let me look into that. If not then the raid 10 will have to do. Thanks for all the help.