Hello,

 

I am new to unRaid and virtulization. I will start with the manual 'Installing a Windows VM. I do have a 62 Gig flash drive that I am using for the unRaid OS and would like to install the Windows OS on it as well. Is this possible?

 

Windows Server 2012 will be used to run SQL Server 2012 and a small application used for recording time and for doing reports. The database could be stored on the hard drive. 20 to 30 gig for the Windows Server should be more than enough space.

 

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

 

Bill

 

 

Hello,

 

I am new to unRaid and virtulization. I will start with the manual 'Installing a Windows VM. I do have a 62 Gig flash drive that I am using for the unRaid OS and would like to install the Windows OS on it as well. Is this possible?

 

Windows Server 2012 will be used to run SQL Server 2012 and a small application used for recording time and for doing reports. The database could be stored on the hard drive. 20 to 30 gig for the Windows Server should be more than enough space.

 

Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

 

Bill

If you install any VM onto a flash drive (especially a Windows OS), you're going to very quickly destroy the flash due to the massive amounts of writes that are going to wind up taking place.  (Not to mention the performance hit)

 

Possible: Yes  Advised: Definitely No

 

Far better off to install to a cache drive.

Not usually recommended to install things to the unRAID flash drive. In some ways the unRAID OS itself is not really installed there. It is just unpacked from there into RAM and runs in RAM. The flash is just used very lightly for some persistent storage such as configuration data.

 

Putting Windows on a flash is not something you would normally do if you weren't running it in a VM. Flash drives are not SSDs and don't perform well and won't "wear" well with frequent writing.

Hi Guys,

 

Thanks for the information!

 

Bill