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Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design

By : Eric Siron
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Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design

By: Eric Siron

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Microsoft Hyper-V Cluster Design
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Placing virtual machines on storage


The final task you need to learn is placing virtual machines on storage. This is done at creation time and when moving a virtual machine. By default, Hyper-V will try to place virtual machines on internal storage at a local location that is not cluster-accessible. You can override this on each usage, or you can modify the default settings. In Hyper-V Manager, right-click on a node and choose Hyper-V Settings…. The first two tabs, Virtual Hard Disks and Virtual Machines, hold the default locations. The other location are as follows:

  • For CSVs, target locations will be C:\ClusterStorage\CSVName

  • For non-CSV cluster disks, indicate the drive letter

  • For SMB 3.0 shares, enter the UNC

It is critical that all of a virtual machine's storage files be placed on shared storage, or Live Migration and other cluster operations will fail. If you need to relocate them, right-click on any virtual machine in Failover Cluster Manager, go to Move, and click on Virtual Machine Storage...