SQLRNNR (12/8/2011)
Elliott Whitlow (12/7/2011)
SQLRNNR (12/7/2011)
The local drive is far to small (Server 2008 R2 for instance will chew up most of that 50GB for just the OS).Not sure I agree with that.. I would expect 50GB to be about right, provided that NO system databases are allowed on the OS drives, which is my policy. I have quite a few installs of SQL 2008R2 on Win 2008R2 and I expect the base install with required components AND the components of SQL that must be installed on C: to use up right about 20GB + the page file.. I have seen this over and over again.. And I still have sufficient space for SPs of the OS..
Hmmm. Odd, our installs were consistently 35-38GB. Granted still enough space on a 50GB drive.
Hmm, not sure what to tell you do you guys install a lot of extra software? Use really big page files? Have extra install binaries left on C? Kind of running short on ideas here..
As an aside I have an R2 running Hyper-V fitting fully onto a 32GB SSD for a test machine.
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