What's the best way to partition the disk of a Server with Hyper-V Role?

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should have 1 gigantic c drive or c drive os , d drive vms or c drive os plus separate partitions every vm guest?

we able use windows backup vss backup of running vms , read impossible restore individual vms, entire partitions vss, makes sound like, if want restore single vm, you must make separate partition every vm or else end having to overwrite vms don't need restoring.
the problem with a separate partition every virtual machine guest is either have partions big , waste disk space or else risk running out of space vhd later.

partitioning backup purposes might par different partitionaing other purposes.

most folks use unique parition / volume / lun vms.
the key modify vm snapshot location @ time vm created. (this big gotcha after few snapshots created).

vss technology taking backups of running vms.
data protection manager backs @ vm level using vss.  , there thrid party backup programs coming on line (i can't recall who).

here background on using server backup (which think might thining of):
http://blogs.msdn.com/taylorb/archive/2008/08/20/backing-up-hyper-v-virtual-machines-using-windows-server-backup.aspx
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958662
brian ehlert (hopefully have found useful)


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