Hyper V new server

[jonk]

Hi all,

We have purchased 2 new servers and will be using HyperV.

I was thinking of creating VMS with a 250gb vhd e.g our fileserver VM will have two 250gb vhd's instead of a 500gb vhd.

I have had problems in the past with vmware and large 500+gb vm's and backing them up.

Do you think this is a good idea?

We will be backing up the vms to a NAS. Can "windows backup" backup the entire vhd while the VM is running on hyper v? (Shadaow copy)
Thanks

[jamesfed]

We have 3x 500Gb VHDs drives attached to our file storage VM and are having no issues backing them up with Microsoft SC DPM with them running on a Hyper-V server.

[jonk]

Ok thanks, would you suggest having a seperate VHD for the OS and another VHD for data in case we need to get the server up quickly for example?