Raid recommendation please!

[Over Clocker]

Hi guys,

Setting up a new server soon, and have become a bit behind on current RAID configs.

What would your recommendations be for the following roles.

Main server will be running Hyper V from Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

1 VM will be the DC, DHCP, DNS, AD etc etc
2nd VM will store folders, files, network programs, remote access (MS RD Web), WDS and Application streaming softare.

What raid configs would you go with in this scenario??

Cheers,

Mal

 

[Over Clocker]

How many users?
How many drives?
How big?
How much storage needed?

20 main users
200 very light users
50 60 PCs / laptops
Drives - not decided yet
Usable space required - approx 1TB

Usage - mixture of reads and writes. The app streaming, WDS etc is mostly reads. Folder & file areas is reads and writes.

Cost will be a limiting factor really. Can go for 4 drives, 5 at the most.

Should the physical server OS and the VMs sit on the same array, or should we make 2 arrays so separate physical disks?

Cheers.