Users Guide

Contents 3
Contents
Getting Started With Microsoft
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Hyper-V™ Technology. 5
Understanding Hyper-V Architecture
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iSCSI Connections Within the Guest OS
. . . . . . . 7
Storage Options for Virtual Machines (VMs) in Hyper-V
. 7
Disk Type
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Disk Location
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Disk Interface
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Understanding the Storage I/O Path
. . . . . . . . 15
Dell Supported Storage Arrays
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
iSCSI Arrays
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Fibre Channel Arrays
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SAS Arrays
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Additional Dell Supported Storage Solutions
. . . . . . 30
Internal Storage
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Host-Based RAID With External Enclosures
. . . . 30
Sizing Storage for Your VM
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Sizing for VHDs
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Sizing for Passthrough Disks
. . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Direct iSCSI Connectivity Within Guest OS
. . . . . . . 34
iSCSI Connections from Both the Parent Partition and Guest OS
34
Direct iSCSI Connection Storage I/O Path
. . . . . 35
iSCSI Connection Summary
. . . . . . . . . . . . 36