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4.2 Microsoft Hyper-V
The Windows Server platform leverages the Hyper-V role for virtualization technology. Initially offered with
Windows Server 2008, Hyper-V has matured with each release to include many new features and
enhancements.
Hyper-V Role
Hyper-V requires Failover Clustering to also be installed on each node in the cluster.
To learn more about Hyper-V, including tools, videos, blogs, and the feature enhancements that have been
made available with each new release of Hyper-V, see the
Microsoft Windows IT Pro Center.
For guidance with Hyper-V support with SC Series storage, see the Dell SC Series Storage and Microsoft
Hyper-V best practices guide.
See also the SC Series virtualization subsection at SC Series technical documents and videos for more white
papers, videos, and reference architectures.
4.3 Cluster shared volumes
Cluster shared volumes (CSVs) are supported with SC Series storage, and the same principles and best
practices that apply to the creation and mapping of regular cluster volumes also apply to CSVs.
Originally introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Clustering, CSVs allow all nodes in a cluster to
simultaneously have read-write access to the same LUN that is formatted as an NTFS or ReFS volume.
Using CSVs, clustered roles can fail over quickly from one node to another node without requiring a change in
drive ownership or dismounting and remounting a volume.
CSVs are most commonly used with Hyper-V guest VMs, but with each new release of Windows Server,
Microsoft continues to expand the types of workloads that are supported on CSVs.
For guidance with Hyper-V support with SC Series, see the
Dell SC Series Storage and Microsoft Hyper-V
best practices guide.