Vista - VS 2005 virtual disk size

Is there a recommended max virtual hard disk size in Virtual Server 2005 R2?

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 13:38:05 -0800, pete0085
<pete0085@xxxxxx> wrote:
Really depends on how much disk space you need for your application.
I have VMs with 5GB, 10GB, 30GB VHDs and larger.
If you're only running an AD controller on a small domain you don't
need a big drive.

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Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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Thanks. My reason for asking is we need to set up a new server to service a
third party application. The vendor requests that we have two hard drives
set up of 146 GB. Curious if this would cause any problems.

All our other virtual machines are 20 GB or 40 GB.

"Steve Jain [MVP]" wrote:

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:55:00 -0800, pete0085
<pete0085@xxxxxx> wrote:
It shouldn't as long as you have have that space available physically.
Also, you'll need to make sure to use SCSI and not IDE in the VM, IDE
disks in VS are limited to 127GB

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Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
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This request is most likely driven by standard physical hard disk sizes,
available and shipping from most major server vendors. The most common
server hard drive configuration is probably 2 - 146 GB (or maybe 2 - 73 GB)
hard drives, again typically configured as a mirror set with the onboard
RAID controller. Your biggest decision point is probably around using a
fixed size VHD or a dynamically expanding VHD...Good luck!

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Ryan Sokolowski
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MCT, MCITP x3, MCTS x8, MCSE x2, CCNA, CCDA, BCFP


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