We use a separate drive for everything. Makes it so much easier if you ever want to expand a partition. As long as you store all your .vmdks of the guest(s) in question, on the same LUN there will be a single connection.
We use a separate drive for everything. Makes it so much easier if you ever want to expand a partition. As long as you store all your .vmdks of the guest(s) in question, on the same LUN there will be a single connection.
A follow-up curiosity...what size are you doing for OS drive size? Windows 2003 specifically.
18GB C: drive for 2003 guests.
With Windows 2003 make sure to do the disk alignment on both drives.
André
So how about win2k8? We were thinking 20 or 25Gb...
Here is a "stupid" question, but how can I tell if they are aligned or how do you align them?
30GB C: for 32bit
40GB C: for 64bit
you only have to align your W2K3 guests, W2K8 is already aligned. To get the starting offset run msinfo32 and look under disks.
To align your OS partition you will have to boot up a WinPE disk before the OS is installed. use diskpart to select your disk (usually disk 0) then type
create partition primary align=64
for data disks, just attach a new drive and align the raw disk.