This recipe will guide you through the steps to rapidly provision a virtual machine by using the Storage Area Network (SAN) Copy technology (for example, snapshots and cloning).
Rapid provisioning can quickly create and deploy VMs, but to use a SAN Copy-capable template, the storage must support SAN Copy through cloning or snapshots.
The SAN Copy-capable template allows VMM, when deploying a new VM, to create a read/write copy of the LUN containing the VHD/VHDX file, which then places the VM files on the new LUN assigned to a destination host/cluster. For this operation, storage transfer is used instead of a network transfer.
Make sure that the following prerequisites are met if you want to use the SAN Copy capability:
Storage support for VMM storage management using SMI-S or SMP provider.
Storage support for cloning or snapshots.
Storage providers installed, configured, and accessible from the Hyper-V servers and VMM management...