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Storage Options for Hyper-V

VolkerW's WebLog — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:48:39 GMT

As always, Andrew beat me on this one too. Jose Barreto, he's technical evangelist in the storage team,

Storage Options for Hyper-V

Noticias externas — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:18:39 GMT

As always, Andrew beat me on this one too. Jose Barreto, he's technical evangelist in the storage

Storage Options for Hyper-V

News — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 07:47:25 GMT

As always, Andrew beat me on this one too. Jose Barreto, he's technical evangelist in the storage

re: Storage options for Windows Server 2008's Hyper-V

rodney.buike — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:34:52 GMT

Is this statement correct?

"You can only have up to 4 virtual IDE disks on the guest (2 controllers with 2 disks each), but they are the only types of disk that the virtualized BIOS will boot from."

I currently have a pile of Virtual Server VMs that all have virtual SCSI adapters and virtual SCSI drives attached and they all boot fine.

re: Storage options for Windows Server 2008's Hyper-V

Virtual PC Guy — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:57:11 GMT

Actually you can boot a Hyper-V virtual machine off of iSCSI by assigning the iSCSI LUN to the parent partition and then directly attaching it to the virtual machine.

Cheers,

Ben

re: Storage options for Windows Server 2008's Hyper-V

stevemarfisi — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:09:28 GMT

Hyper-V does indeed support iSCSI boot, both for the hypervisor-on-2008 and for its guest VMs. We've tested both successfully.

For our tests on guest VMs, we first added a legacy NIC (DEC 21140). We then installed our winBoot/i software as per our normal procedure, copied the VM's contents up to an iSCSI lun, set the BIOS to boot from network and it worked.

Booting a Hyper-V-on-2008 was a bit trickier - the Hyper-V installation adds bindings to an existing NIC that can get in the way of iSCSI boot. As per our past experience with this on Virtual Server 2005 R2 (see http://65.93.237.220/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=203&posts=1)

the trick is to use a 2nd NIC bound to Hyper-V and then set the boot NIC unbound from Hyper-V. We then installed our winBoot/i v2.5 beta client on this, SystemCopy up to iSCSI SAN, and we then booted successfully from iSCSI with VMs still working under Hyper-V.

Screenshots and documentation details will be added to our website support forums within a few days.

Steve Marfisi

emBoot Inc.

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Jose Barreto's Blog — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:08:19 GMT

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Jose Barreto's Blog — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:27:37 GMT

I will be working at the Microsoft booth in the Storage Network World next week in Orlando, Florida.

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Jose Barreto's Blog — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:47:22 GMT

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