Hello to all. I´m on a project that involves Windows 2012 Std. Hyper-V and have some questions. The context is:
a) I have a Windows 2012 host that will have Hyper-V installed and will hold 2 guests, one Windows 2012 DC and one Windows 2012 File Server.
b) The host has several NICs, 10 to be exactly. The same host has a 8 Tb on RAID 5 just to hold the guest OSs. Customer networking is simple, has just 192.168.1/24 subnet.
Questions:
1- I created a Windows 2012 teaming with 2 NICs just for the two guests and they will communicate with production environment. I´m confused if I must enter a production IP on the teamed host adapter resulted from 2 mentioned NICs or I just reference the teamed adapter during Hyper-V role installation and enter production IPs only on guests NICs, on for each guest OS.
2- As I will have 3 volumes for the guest File Server should I create 3 virtual hard disks on host and attach all three to the guest File Server or should I create just one big virtual hard disk and attach it to the guest File Server? What virtual hard disk type is the best, static or dynamic? What are the drawbacks on this case (extend, shrink restrictions)?
3- One guest will be a Windows 2012 DC and other guest will be a file server. Any specific recomendation for these kind of guests?
4- As the host has severals NICs, do you think is a good idea team 2 NICs to be the host production NIC (a second teamed NIC, not for the guests but for the host so I could get fault tolerance for it)?
Best regards, EEOC.