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    Transfer speed difference with pass-through hyper-v disk?

    You did not specify which version of Hyper-V you are using. With Hyper-V 2012. there is very little to gain (and some to loose) by using pass through disks. The new .vhdx disk format will provide reliable performance then a pass through disk...regardless of OS. On our test server (Dell T420 w/...
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    Need hard advice with a build to maximize the number of VMs.

    The more VM's you run, disk I/O becomes an issue. I posted about this a couple of weeks ago in regards to 20-25 VM's with large SQL Server databases running on Raid or no Raid and using JBOD. We run Hyper-V 2012 core on a Dell T420 server with 2x Intel Xeon E5-2420 processors and 64 GB of...
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    Small Home Lab - PowerEdge T20

    Nothing wrong with the T110 ii's. In fact, not that I really needed it, I just ordered another today through work. With more ram (16 GB) and a faster processor, the retail price with the promo code 9c9wwd055$bk2z works out to $527.00. As my employer is a Dell partner, once I get the final quote...
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    Small Home Lab - PowerEdge T20

    Replying again.... Not sure what you budget is but I was playing around with some prices on dell.com. A T320 server with: Intel® Pentium 1403 2.60GHz 8 GB Ram 500 GB Drive GB NIC Cost with coupon code 9c9wwd055$bk2z: $776.00 + tax. We have the next sized server, the T420 at work...
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    Small Home Lab - PowerEdge T20

    These are new and not very configurable and limited to 4 GB ordered. As the Dell website suggests, I would advise you to look at the more configurable T110ii which is the same base price. For the T110ii, add 8 GB of RAM and a better processor (Intel® Pentium® G850), price comes out to about...
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    Hyper-V and SQL Server Test Environment RAID vs NO RAID

    Definitely not network related. The server has 2x Gigabit NIC's on board. One NIC is solely reserved for the physical host and the second NIC is for the virtual network. The whole physical network with multiple vlans is Gigabit with Cat6. The Dell server is plugged into a Cisco SG100-24 switch...
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    Hyper-V and SQL Server Test Environment RAID vs NO RAID

    As mentioned in my original post, we can do with out the RAID and assign each user their own separate physical drives. As this is just a test system, we can do without RAID redundancy if need be. I also have .vhd templates that have all requisite software, updates etc installed then sysprep...
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    Hyper-V and SQL Server Test Environment RAID vs NO RAID

    We have a separate file server where client SQL databases are stored in zip files. These zip files are copied to, unzipped and all reading/writing/testing etc are done within the specific hyper-v guest test system.
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    Hyper-V and SQL Server Test Environment RAID vs NO RAID

    Thanks for the info. I'll look into contacting Dell next week in regards to the IOPS tool.
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    Hyper-V and SQL Server Test Environment RAID vs NO RAID

    We are running 20-25 different SQL Server test systems (SQL 2005, 2008, Windows 7, 2008, 2008 R2)in a Hyper-v 2012 environment for 4-6 concurrent users. Each user has their own separate hyper-v guest test systems, meaning none of the users share the same concurrent environment and not all of the...
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    Recommend out-of-box Dell server for ESXi development lab

    I can recommend the Dell T420. We just took delivery of one these servers which has 64 GB Ram, 2 x Xeon processors and 4 x 1 TB of drives which we will expand to 8 drives over the next year. Cost was just under $3500.00 a couple of months ago. We use Hyper-V 2012 and the virtual machines run...
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    Dell T110 II and $TB HD compatibility

    I recently purchased a Dell T110 ii with the i3-2100 processor. I would like to purchase some 4TB drives but cannot find any info if these servers (CPU, MB) are compatible with 4TB drives. The server spec pdf file does not have much info and Dell support has not been helpful. Any advise is...
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    PowerEdge T110-II for VM Lab Host

    First time poster and stumbled across this forum while looking for T110 related info. I just purchased a Poweredge T110-II a couple of weeks ago and it was delivered early week. I live in Canada so some of the options and pricing on the Dell.ca website are not always the same as the USA...
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