![]() ![]() My original design used a single SSD for the operating system and binaries. IO becomes even more important as you add more concurrently running VMs, which you can easily do with 32GB of RAM! The two most important things for a Hyper-V 2012 server are RAM (VM capacity) and IO (VM performance). ![]() I modified a few things since I built the original lab server I documented in January 2012. I'm including those items in this build, while maintaining the same price point as over a year ago. I also made some tweaks to my initial server over the year, adding another SSD drive for active VMs and enabling sleep mode on my physical storage hard drive to save more power. Now that Windows Server 2012 has been out for a while I wanted to update that article to incorporate newer technologies, like 3rd generation Intel processors and faster DDR3 RAM. The article proved to be extremely popular and paved the way for many fellow technologists to build their own lab servers. At that time "Windows Server 8" hadn't even been released yet, but I wanted to build a server that would work with "future generations" of Hyper-V. Over a year ago I wrote an article detailing how to build a Blistering Fast Windows Server for about $1,000 USD. Update: I now have a newer 4th generation EXPTA server build using the latest components, including the new Intel I5-4570S Haswell quad-core processor and faster SSD drives. ![]()
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