Users Guide

54 Using SMB/CIFS Shares in Hyper-V
• Grant the appropriate permissions for the domain "Machine" account of
all the Hyper-V hosts that are part of the Hyper-V Host Cluster:
– The domain machine accounts (such as
DOMAIN\COMPUTERNAME$) of all Hyper-V cluster nodes are
granted
Full Control in the Share permissions of the shared folder
– The domain machine accounts of all Hyper-V cluster nodes are
granted
Full Control in the Security settings for the shared folder and
all its files
• In certain scenarios (such as remotely managing a Hyper-V server), the use
of SMB shares will require the use of constrained delegation. Refer to
Step-
by-Step Guide for Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster in
Windows Server 2008
from microsoft.com .
• Dell does not recommend the use of file shares to host VM files due to the
performance limitations. However, if you are using files shares, using a
separate NIC is recommended.