  Hyper-V will be installed on the RAID 1. Hyper-V will manage all your VM's. The VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) for you VM's can be stored anywhere. IF you create a domain controller as a VM, you would put the VHD for that VM on the RAID 1, OR you could simply set up the host as a VM ... I don't see any reason to make it a VM. The VHD for your DB would be on the RAID 10. 1. Yes, although if you were considering 4xSAS RAID 10, you would probably be fine with 2xSSD. 2. Yes. 3. Yes, if that is what you want to do.
Hi. I was tasked to purchase a new server for the new Oracle ERP (customized, not from Oracle itself) for a company. ERP users will be less than 50 users. I am currently looking at R730 with the following configurations in mind. 1x Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 8x 16GB 2400MT/s RDIMM 8x 300GB 15K 12GB/s SAS Drives  This would be my first implementation of a server so I honestly don't know it this config is enough for an Oracle database with less than 50 concurrent users. Or maybe it is even an overkill. Also, I don't know what to do with the drives, should I get 8x300GB and run in RAID 10? What RAID and size is applicable for an ERP system(Oracle database)? This are the client's requirements. 1. Hyper-V 2. 2 VM - 1 ERP, 1 Domain Controller That's it. That's the info they gave me.  So my questions again are. 1. Does my initial config OK for an ERP system? 2. What RAID configuration and size of disk should I get? Client said that from their current system data size is 2-3GB/year. 
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