Case Project 7-1: Choosing a Virtual Disk Configuration You have two Windows Ser

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Case Project 7-1: Choosing a Virtual Disk Configuration You have two Windows Server 2016 computers with the Hyper-V role installed. Both computers have two hard drives, one for the system volume and the other for data. One server, HyperVTest, is going to be used mainly for testing and what-if scenarios, and its data drive is 250 GB. You estimate that you might have 8 or 10 VMs configured on HyperVTest with two or three running at the same time. Each test VM has disk requirements ranging from about 30 GB to 50 GB. The other server, HyperVApp, runs in the data center with production VMs installed. Its data drive is 500 GB. You expect two VMs to run on HyperVApp, each needing about 150 GB to 200 GB of disk space. Both are expected to run fairly disk-intensive applications. Given this environment, describe how you would configure the virtual disks for the VMs on both servers.

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you can add the virtual disks to the virtual machine using the steps below

1.Open the virtual machine settings editor (VM > Settings) and click Add. The Add Hardware Wizard guides you through the steps to create your virtual disk.
2.Click Hard Disk, then click Next.
3.Select Create a new virtual disk, then click Next.
4.Choose whether you want the virtual disk to be an IDE disk or a SCSI disk.
5.Set the capacity for the new virtual disk.

If you wish, select Allocate all disk space now.

Allocating all the space at the time you create the virtual disk gives somewhat better performance, but it requires as much disk space as the size you specify for the virtual disk.

If you do not select this option, the virtual disk's files start small and grow as needed, but they can never grow larger than the size you set here.

You can set a size between 0.1GB and 950GB for a virtual disk. The default is 4GB.

You may also specify whether you want the virtual disk created as one large file or split into a set of 2GB files. You should split your virtual disk if it is stored on a file system that does not support files larger than 2GB.

6.Accept the default filename and location for the virtual disk file or change it, if you want to use a different name or location. To find a different folder, click Browse.

If you want to specify a device node for your virtual disk, click Advanced.

On the advanced settings screen, you can also specify a disk mode.
7.The wizard creates the new virtual disk. It appears to your guest operating system as a new, blank hard disk. Use the guest operating system's tools to partition and format the new drive for use.

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