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Quote from Data Deduplication on Server 2012-R2. http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2013/07/31/extending-data-deduplication-to-new-workloads-in-windows-server-2012-r2.aspx So it looks like my first question was answered. Data dedupe isn't officially supported (but this is a lab) and I...

Sweet, I will try the different configuration settings and report back on how its working. Currently I have it setup with SMB 3.0 over a 2012 (non-R2) file server with 3 NIC cards in one team. Performance is fine at this point (no hint at VM performance issues) The question I was curious...

All of the system center stuff supports dynamic memory, so hopefully given that I have almost no users I will be able to run 5-6 machines per. I guess we will see. As for the drive configuration, what do you recommend? I have 4*120GB drives. I can't run shared dynamic disks in a cluster...

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Infrastructure - Networking. I already owned a 24 port Cisco 2970 gigabit switch. It isn't ideal for a home lab because of how loud it is, but I wanted something that was gigabit and had enough port density that would ensure that I could accurately replicate a data center environment. For...

Hardware Requirements: 1. 2 virtual hosts capable of running Windows 2012. Intel processors that have VT-x technology 2. 3rd machine / storage appliance 3. Enough memory on virtual hosts to run 12-15 hosts, and allow some of the hosts to automatically fail-over. 4. Storage should have enough...

I am starting this post to document and solicit advice help from the friendly people on this forum as I start to build out my Hyper-V / System Center 2012 private cloud build. background: I am an experienced IT consultant working for a large MS centric organization. I already have...

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn387076.aspx#bkmk_tiers It looks like I will need the number of columns to be the same in both tiers. So if I want a 2 way (mirror) 2 column (this would total 4 spinning drives) I am going to need 4 SSD drives to make that work. From what I am...

Are you using an on-board controller or a separate controller? If it's on-board, what is your board? I wonder if the controller has to hand off the raid calculations to the processor and that is slowing it down.

What about something like enclosures from pc-pitstop.com They have some rack mount 4 bay as well as stand alone 4 bay enclosures. Most of the enclosures that they make have ZERO intelligence, just a powersupply and a SFF connector. http://www.pc-pitstop.com/ In the past, I built a...

one thing to remember is that this is a home lab. The two hosts are each single processor HP Z400 workstations, one has 12GB and the other 16gb. So my CPU/Memory is only 8 hyper-threaded cores and (after hypervisor OS use) around 22GB of memory.

thanks for the help. So here are a few follow up questions. Again, I have a $300 budget that I can stretch to $400 but beyond that it won't clear congress (the wife). 4 WD 1TB RE3 drives (Storite) http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001IEXU68/?tag=pcpapi-20 1 Samsung 840 EVO...

Sorry for the confusion. I am seeking advice on selecting a storage solution that will meet the needs of a all Microsoft lab with 2 small physical hosts, each running between 6-8 guests (total of 12-15 guests at a time) Should I purchase a separate controller, or use the on-board SATA II...

I am finishing up my "on the cheap" Hyper-V lab and the last piece is storage. My 2 hosts are older quad core Xeon powered HP workstations, one has 12GB of memory and the other 16GB of memory. The machines each have a dual Intel Gigabit NIC along with the onboard Broadcom NIC. I am...

Microsoft Hyper-V server 2012 support USB and they have a few drives listed that will work. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj733589.aspx Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate Super Talent Express RC8 Western Digital My Passport Enterprise