Hi, I'm about to setup an Exchange 2013 server on Windows 2012 R2 on a Windows 2012 R2 hyper-V host.
The plans is to use fixed VHDXs on seperate disks on the host server. The system and applications will be on one fixed VHDX on a RAID5, the Databases in a fixed VHDX on a RAID10 disk and the logs on a fixed VHDX on a RAID5. The host disks used for logs and disks will not be used for anything else. The reason for the fixed VHDX over pass-through disks is our backup software doesn't support pass-through/raw disks.
Two questions, any tips in general about this?
Main question, are there any configurations on the host server I can do to optimize the two disks for the logs and DBs? To remove any minor load the host OS might put on those disks to optimize the performance for Exchange?