Well, putting some VHDs there would also make that space available to the guests. You'd probably get more flexibility that way compared to pass-through disks (in terms of re-allocating space). SMB share would give you the most flexibility in terms of having to reorganise anything.
Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, 23 November 2010 3:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper-V pass through disks or sharing disks No, the VHDs will be on the system partition, mirrored sas 15k drives. The chunk of sata raid5 storage is also attached to the host but is used for data, not VHD storage. So, pass through or sharing? -- G2 Support Network Support : Online Backups : Server Management Web: www.g2support.com Twitter: g2support<http://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support> Newsletter: www.g2support.com/newsletter<http://www.g2support.com/newsletter> From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 23 November 2010 01:18 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Hyper-V pass through disks or sharing disks 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]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin [cid:[email protected]] Network Support Online Backups Server Management [http://www.g2support.com/googleapps.jpg] Tel: 0845 307 3443 Email: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Web: http://www.g2support.com<http://www.g2support.com/> Twitter: g2support<http://twitter.com/home?stat...@g2support> Newsletter: http://www.g2support.com/newsletter Mail: 2 Roundhill Road, Brighton, Sussex, BN2 3RF Have you said something nice about us to a friend or colleague ? Let us say thanks. Find out more at www.g2support.com/referral<http://www.g2support.com/referral> G2 Support LLP is registered at Mill House, 103 Holmes Avenue, HOVE BN3 7LE. Our registered company number is OC316341. ~ 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]<mailto:[email protected]> with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ 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
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