Is the RAID array attached to the host? Why not just use the array to host VHDs?
Storing VHDs on an SMB share is strongly not-recommended by the Hyper-v team. Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, 22 November 2010 11:43 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Hyper-V pass through disks or sharing disks Hi, We have a hyper-v host here with a mass of raid5 storage space locally. We want that accessible to one of the VM guests. There's two ways of doing this. Marking the raid5 partition as offline and then setting it up as a pass through disk and also just to share the raid5 disk on the host so that it's accessible over the network. Are there any pro's/con's to either? I like the idea of sharing it and having it accessible as a share as it means that the data is accessible by other VM guests and physicals as well. I'm assuming that throughput to both is going to be about the same. Any comments? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
