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I need to run a website (with database) in a virtualized environment, all MS. There will be one primary server with one available for failover. We are expecting a pretty managable load, maybe 25 users although the queries may be big.

How would you recommend setting up the virtual servers on the primary physical server?

For example: -only 1 virtual server running IIS and SQL Server? -separate IIS and SQL server into 2 virtual servers? -separate IIS and SQL server and duplicate them, for 4 virtual servers, which isn't necessary for load but might make it easier to upgrade since we could take one off line? - or something else?

Thanks.

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  • Why hypervisor? what hardware? what versions of code?
    – Chopper3
    Aug 17, 2009 at 11:15
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    How long is a piece of string?
    – Mark Henderson
    Aug 18, 2009 at 21:04
  • ...and how big is a big query?
    – John Gardeniers
    Sep 2, 2009 at 2:13

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I'd suggest separating the Web Server and the Database server since it will be much easier to scale to a separate machine when you need to.

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I just worked on this, see my question.

Advice for Hyper-v deployment on windows server

I think reading through that will help you.

IMHO, after playing around with it, I think you should just create 2 virtual servers one for IIS and the other for SQL Server, you can make backups of those VM/VHD and then use those if you need to run tests/upgrade or whatever.

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