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I should probably know the answer to this and I'm thinking the answer is no but would the following question be on topic

I have an environment with Live, User Acceptance, staging and development servers (In this case windows mainly 2012, all hyper-v guests). Each of these parts of the environment has a frontend and backend server. The backend servers contain proportionally large amounts of data. Across the User Acceptance, staging and development servers this data does not change (apart from the occasional refresh from live) and it rarely accessed outside the development cycle.

In this type of environment what is the best way of avoiding wasting storage space on static and rarely accessed data.

Things I've considered.

Deleting servers while not in use 
Deleting data discs while not in use 
Sharing data discs between servers

I should probably know the answer to this and I'm thinking the answer is no but would the following question be on topic

I have an environment with Live, User Acceptance, staging and development servers (In this case windows mainly 2012, all hyper-v guests). Each of these parts of the environment has a frontend and backend server. The backend servers contain proportionally large amounts of data. Across the User Acceptance, staging and development servers this data does not change (apart from the occasional refresh from live) and it rarely accessed outside the development cycle.

In this type of environment what is the best way of avoiding wasting storage space on static and rarely accessed data.

Things I've considered.

Deleting servers while not in use Deleting data discs while not in use Sharing data discs between servers

I should probably know the answer to this and I'm thinking the answer is no but would the following question be on topic

I have an environment with Live, User Acceptance, staging and development servers (In this case windows mainly 2012, all hyper-v guests). Each of these parts of the environment has a frontend and backend server. The backend servers contain proportionally large amounts of data. Across the User Acceptance, staging and development servers this data does not change (apart from the occasional refresh from live) and it rarely accessed outside the development cycle.

In this type of environment what is the best way of avoiding wasting storage space on static and rarely accessed data.

Things I've considered.

Deleting servers while not in use 
Deleting data discs while not in use 
Sharing data discs between servers

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Drifter104
Drifter104
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Storage question. On topic?

I should probably know the answer to this and I'm thinking the answer is no but would the following question be on topic

I have an environment with Live, User Acceptance, staging and development servers (In this case windows mainly 2012, all hyper-v guests). Each of these parts of the environment has a frontend and backend server. The backend servers contain proportionally large amounts of data. Across the User Acceptance, staging and development servers this data does not change (apart from the occasional refresh from live) and it rarely accessed outside the development cycle.

In this type of environment what is the best way of avoiding wasting storage space on static and rarely accessed data.

Things I've considered.

Deleting servers while not in use Deleting data discs while not in use Sharing data discs between servers