Hello VM Community,
I'm quite new to virtualisation and still can't decide which way to go. I hope you can give me a push in the right direction.
I want to setup a small sever for an office which will run everything (DC, AD, file storage).
For this, I will get my hands on a Dell R310 with 8GB of ram and 4x 500 GB Hard drives (internal, maybe as Raid5).
Now I have to decide, do I just make a simple Win2008 install or go for the free Hypervisor to later create two virtual machines, one for the DC and one for the file storage.
From your experience, is it worth to do the extra work to do the virtualization? And, more interesting, do you think the hardware is capable? I have no idea how to handle the hard disks, in the past I worked with Virtual machine but always had a SAN at hand.
Because the office is small money is an issue so this server is the maximum I can get.
Thank you all in advance,
Dom