I am migrating from SBS 2011 Std to Server 2016. I have a large host server, with approx 12 TB of useful HD space. I have the host set up with 512 GB HD, 360GB Paging file drive and 11 TB for Data/VMs. Am i OK using just one Server 2016 WSE (as a VM) with a couple of larger Data drives, for both files, and two applications, one for time sheets, the other for QuickBooks Enterprise. Or would I be better off setting up two VMs, one for WSE 2016 with data files and a second just for the applications?
Thanks, Greg
In addition to my previous answer, you may want to set up performance monitoring: Detecting bottlenecks in a virtualized environment | Microsoft Docs
Hello Greg,
There is not an easy answer to this. The bottleneck in this situation is most of the time disk IO and if that is also the case for you then I would split into two VM's and set Storage QoS for disk intensive loads. Read Hyper-V Storage I/O Performance | Microsoft Docs
Setting up multiple servers for different loads with multiple virtual disks is always a good idea.