I am almost a complete newbie to VMware. I am running a VMware Server 2.0 with W2003 as host and two W2003 as guests. After testing for almost a month - and I have to say very successful - I am now planning to setup a productive environment but I am struggeling a litle with my concept. What I would like to achieve should look like this

two 500 GB disks in a mirror for the host system - partitioned:

20 GB as C: - for the host operating system (w2003)

480 GB as D: - to hold my virtual guests operating systems

Two more 1 TB disks in a mirror to hold all program and data of all guests.

The idea behind this setup is to have all important data of all guests centralized in one location for easier access and easier backup. So far I have gathered there is a feature called "shared folders" that would suite my needs, but - not supported in VMware Server 2.0. So I am trying to setup my environment to have quasi shared folders. On solution could be to have the 1 TB disk running as drive E: in my virtual host and have this connected as a standard UNC resource in Windows. I haven't ried it yet, because I expect trouble due to the connected drives are not available to the guests, without someone logged in. The other concern ist performance.

My question is, has anyone tried something similar and found a solution? Or is there a different (better) approach?

Thanks in advance for sharing your opinion with me.

Reagrds