Hello ,I recently acquired a Dell 2950III and want to use it to host VMs off of it.The server configuration is Windows Server 2008 r2 datacenter,2x3.0ghz quad cores and 32GB RAM perc 6 currently 2x500GB Maxtor sata drives in RAID 1.
1st .Since it will be used for VMs (with windows xp pro, old I know but will only have connect to 1 site(trusted) on internet so no security concerns ),and some light file backups (security camera footage) I want to have 2 x146gb SAS drives in raid 1 for OS and other 4 bays with WD RED drives in RAID 4 for VMs and backups.is there a way to migrate to this new configuration or would I have to start over?
2nd the graphics are pretty crummy does anyone know a updated driver or new card I can put in to improve quality?(I already gutted the quality by putting on 16bit )
3rd the thing takes 4 minutes to boot up is there a way to speed that up?
p.s. any information is helpful and anyone have a idea how many VMs I could run I was thinking 10 with one core each and 2gb ram?
I thank you in advance
Nick