Re: [CentOS] File server as host for a Windows Server VM?

So far you have not provided stats on server usage (cpu,ram) over a 24hour or 7 day 8am-5pm timeframe. So I will asume you have plenty of usage/performance to spare.

Yes, I do.

Unless using SSDs when creating the VM pleae do not use dynamic disk allocation. MS SQL may be very intensive and you are already sharing resources, lets not be the i/o intensity of the expanding disk one of them.

The Windows VM machine would have (for now) two 1TB enterprise class disks in a mirror configuration exclusively available to it.

remember SQL server is all about RAM, the more the merrier.

I can give it 24 GB or even 36 GB if needed.

is your partition aligned?

Yes.