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please give suggestion raid hard drive configuration in windows 2003 server.How it will used and advantages of raid.

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Well, 2003 Server or ANY Other server. Here is what I do - note hat I do use virtualization explicitely, so I have few physical server.

  • Boot drive is 2-3 RAID 10'd discs - mirror or stripe mirror.
  • A 64gb partition holds the operating system
  • The rest is named "Hyper-V" and under V ;)

That is it. Additional partitions are existing sometimes on other discs for high performance servers or large capacity - like a database server that has about 12 other discs physically mapped to it.

Virtual server use a 64gb boot disc - actually a delta disc to a master image - and get additional discs as needed (i.e. when the demand says so).

Some servers have additional raid 10 / 5 / 6 groups as needed, if in addition to hyper-v for example they also serve as file server. THis is pretty much the only stuff I allow - I do NOT install real software outside virtual machines, only operating system roles.

OS discs are either WD Scorpio Black 320gb (budget) or Velociraptor 300gb (performance), depending on the estimated load.

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