Wow it has been a little too long, but here we go.

I got my hands on some hardware to play with and configure so I thought I would share the design with you, loyal fans. What I have is a basic design setup, 2TB storage and 5 servers that I wanted to virtualize and in both Hyper-V and VMware. The general hardware overview:

With this, i am going with Boot from SAN for the Hyper-V servers and Boot from USB on the. There is no special requirements or tweaks for either of these setups, they both should just work.

The conceptual view of the environment is simple and basic, but I wanted to relay that each server type is on both host types. This design has an Active Directory and Database server on both the Hyper-V and the VMware clusters

Now we start getting to the meat of it, how am dividing up the storage to the servers, best answer I can give is, Evenly

I did two separate 500GB volumes for admin data, VMs that are require more up time in general, and then a 250GB volume for the general data. On the Admin volume i will also have machine templates and required ISOs for installing software and OSes.

And finally an overview of how it all relates to each other. The authentication services and the monitoring talk to everything, while the web servers and the file servers just talk to themselves.