Best storage practise in Hyper-V 2012

i´m building lab enviroment of single hyper-v stand-alone hypervisor, run 10 vm servers, part of them converted vmware esxi , reinstalled 2012 servers.

because lab, have limited amount of budged, , don´t have physical raid card, has affected i/o performance in vmware. hyper-v, i´m thinking set raid os´s disk management, stand-alone´s hyper-v controll disks it´s own raid functions.

i have:

1. 1 sata disk hyper-v standalone installed on.
2. 2 large sata ii disks mirrored run light vm servers.
3. 2 smaller sata disks mirrored run sccm server it´s own database.

how sound , disk type should use?

hi yannara,

if wanting make use of storage spaces clusters in test environment, need make sure disks sas.  otherwise free use type of disk want.  here useful article on storage spaces in server 2012: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2012/10/10/windows-server-2012-storage-spaces-is-it-for-you-could-be.aspx.

hope helps out.

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