Hyper-V Storage

Hyper-V with Virtual Hard Disk Sharing Supported Scenarios for Virtual Hard Disk Sharing More information ....
Windows Server 2012 R2 enables you to share a virtual hard disk file (VHDX format), Supported scenarios include:
which provides shared storage for a virtual machine failover cluster (also known as a Faster virtual hard disk sharing using SMB Direct and SMB Multichannel.
guest cluster). By making shared storage available to virtual machines, you can can Migrating shared virtual hard disks using live migration. Live Migration
easily use a virtual machine failover cluster to protect your application services (for
example, SQL or file server services) running inside your virtual machines. Saving and restoring virtual machines.
Protecting against the failure of a guest node, Hyper-V host, or file server node.
Virtual Machine Clustering Using Cluster Shared Volumes
Using Windows Server 2012 R2 for file server nodes and Hyper-V hosts.
One option for using virtual hard disk sharing is to use cluster shared volumes.
Using Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2012 for guest nodes. Hyper-V Storage
Virtual Hard Disk
Node 1 Node 2 Virtual Machine Clustering with SMB Storage in a Scale-Out File Server Sharing
One option for using virtual hard disk sharing is to use a scale-out file server.
You can configure virtual
machine storage on the
server running Hyper-V.
Node 1 Node 2
Virtual Machine 2 Online Virtual Hard
Virtual Machine 1 Hyper-V virtual machine failover
clustering is available for use with Disk Resizing
data virtual hard disks, not the boot Quality of Service
Boot Shared Shared Boot virtual hard disk.
Configuration Disk Disk Disk Disk Configuration
File
File
Virtual Machine 1 Virtual Machine 2

VHDX 2 Boot Shared Boot

VHDX 1 Shared
Disk Disk Configuration
VHDX format only
Configuration Disk Disk
File
Session Modes
File

VHDX 1 VHDX 2

Server Running Hyper-V Server Running Hyper-V VHDX format only

Hyper-V and
Shared Virtual Hard Disk Regular VHDX Failover Clustering
Stored on a Cluster Shared VHDX Server Running Hyper-V Server Running Hyper-V
Shared Volume VHDX 1 VHDX 3 VHDX 2

A virtual machine failover cluster using a shared Shared Virtual

virtual hard disk is not limited to a specific
Storage Spaces Space 1 storage topology. It is supported on Fibre Share 1 Hard Disk Stored VHDX 1 VHDX 3 VHDX 2
on SMB File Share Generation 2
Channel, iSCSI, Storage Spaces, and SMB. Share 1 Virtual Machines

Storage Spaces Space 1

Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4
Shared Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) Storage File Server 1 File Server 2
Virtual Hard Disk Sharing does not support:
Regular VHDX
Storage migration. Windows 8 App
Shared VHDX
Server Posterpedia
Hyper-V Replica. A virtual machine failover cluster using a
Disk 1 Disk 2 Disk 3 Disk 4 shared virtual hard disk is not limited to a
Storage Quality of Service (QoS). specific storage topology. It is supported
Shared SAS Storage on Fibre Channel, iSCSI, Storage Spaces,
and SMB.
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