Hello,
I am in the process of setting up a new Hyper-V 2012 Server and one of the servers to be hosted on it will be running Windows 2008 R2 with SQL Server 2012. Someone has recommended to me that I split the installation onto two volumes using the 2nd volume for SQL data files. Since both volumes would be carved out of the same underlying RAID volume in Hyper-V I am wondering if that is really necessary.
The Hyper-V host itself has four 15,000 rpm SAS drives configured as RAID-10. It is split into two volumes, one 80gb volume for Hyper-V itself, and the rest a roughly 1TB volume for the Virtual Machines themselves. If I create two volumes for the SQL server they will both come out of the same 1TB volume.
Is it worth the extra trouble to create two partitions for a SQL server in a case such as this?
Thanks in advance.