I am looking for advice on installing SQL Server 2012 on a VM. Let's say you have 8 cores and 1.5 TB of drive space and 16 Gigs of RAM. There is only one production database which about 40 Gigs in size. The Max memory will be set 12 Gigs. How would you recommend partitioning the space (I am assuming you want 3 drives)?Where would you place the transaction logs (I am assuming one per core - even though there is just one main database)? Which drive would place the SQL install on (on a different drive than the OS)? How do you avoid the VM accessing the same alotment of disk? Is it really necessary to have different drives for the VM (performance wise since they all access the same alotment of disks)?
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