Hi there,
I have two HP ProLiant DL380 Servers running Windows Server 2012. Both HP servers are hardware and software identical. Each server has two six core Xeon CPUs, 120GB of RAM, local system C: (RAID-1) is 136GB, local data E: drive (RAID-5) is 2.6TB
I have a task to create two nodes Hyper-V cluster using these HP servers. Around 60 virtual machines will be moved from “old” Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster onto this “new” one.
It would be waste not to use 2.6TB of the local storage on each server…, plus IOPS figures are much higher on the local hard drives than SAN iSCSI LUN storage.
Here is my question. Is the any way I can utilise local disk storage (2.6TB hard drive E) to build highly available Windows 2012 Hyper-V cluster? Or, if I want to have highly available VMs I need to have Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) like we have with Windows 2008 R2 Hyper-V cluster? Or, perhaps in my case I need to investigate “Deploy Hyper-V over SMB” option http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134187.aspx
Many thanks in advance!