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Install Premium Edition on 1 server
- Thread starter fandab
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Hey there, if you mean add on SQL yeah you can do, the software lets you if thats all you mean. T
he disk subsystem and the install configration will need to be considered though if actually doing it.
Also, there is no more ISA bundled with sbs premium
hope this helps
Jamie
he disk subsystem and the install configration will need to be considered though if actually doing it.
Also, there is no more ISA bundled with sbs premium
hope this helps
Jamie
ShackDaddy
MIS
You could run the additional Premium license as Win2008 with HyperV on the hardware and then run SBS 2008 as a virtual machine if you like.
Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net
Dave Shackelford
ThirdTier.net
terrywilson
MIS
You can actually install the server 2008 std license as the host and then install SBS onto one VM and then a second machine as another VM to run SQL or TS or whatever you want with it. We have done it and it works fairly well, some thoughts:
- Don't ever use SBS2008 as the host and install the HyperV role on it, its not supported (even though it lets you do it) and it will break things.
- Split your disk load, disk is the real bottle-neck for servers these days, memory and cpu is so cheap its not really an issue in that regard. If you can afford it split your host and two vms across three sets of disks.
- Consider using seperate VHDs for your System and Data on the SBS guest. The reason I suggest that is to give you a little more flexibility around accessing the data easily if the SBS server needs to be down for any reason.
- Fixed sized VHDs seem to be the way to go performance wise, I haven't tried RAW disk access yet but I imagine it would be even quicker still.
- Exclude the VM folders on the host from Virus Scanning
- Don't join the VM Host to the domain
- To be allowed to install Windows in this manner the parent operating system is only allowed to be used for virtualisation and management tasks; ie its ok to have HyperV and ServeRAID manager on it, however you can't use it for your Trend parent server etc.
- Don't ever use SBS2008 as the host and install the HyperV role on it, its not supported (even though it lets you do it) and it will break things.
- Split your disk load, disk is the real bottle-neck for servers these days, memory and cpu is so cheap its not really an issue in that regard. If you can afford it split your host and two vms across three sets of disks.
- Consider using seperate VHDs for your System and Data on the SBS guest. The reason I suggest that is to give you a little more flexibility around accessing the data easily if the SBS server needs to be down for any reason.
- Fixed sized VHDs seem to be the way to go performance wise, I haven't tried RAW disk access yet but I imagine it would be even quicker still.
- Exclude the VM folders on the host from Virus Scanning
- Don't join the VM Host to the domain
- To be allowed to install Windows in this manner the parent operating system is only allowed to be used for virtualisation and management tasks; ie its ok to have HyperV and ServeRAID manager on it, however you can't use it for your Trend parent server etc.
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