I've been considering installing Hyper-V server so that I can get everything running on one box (yes, I'm new to virtualization). The problem is that I want to have a shared storage drive / array for data files. Is this possible without using VHDs or virtual network shares? From my understanding, you can't share direct access to on drive / array across two VMs, but I'd love to find out that I'm wrong.
The reasons for doing this would be 1) to be able to pull and the data drive(s) in the event of a system crash, and 2) to minimize processor overhead (running an e3110).
My plan was to run Hyper-v Server with VMs for Server 2008 R2, and Windows 7.
An alternate option would possibly be ESXi with VMs for an Opensolaris file server, Server 2008 R2, and Windows 7, but that sounds like a lot of overhead. I do like the idea of ZFS instead of RAID...
Anyways, thanks in advance for any suggestions.
The reasons for doing this would be 1) to be able to pull and the data drive(s) in the event of a system crash, and 2) to minimize processor overhead (running an e3110).
My plan was to run Hyper-v Server with VMs for Server 2008 R2, and Windows 7.
An alternate option would possibly be ESXi with VMs for an Opensolaris file server, Server 2008 R2, and Windows 7, but that sounds like a lot of overhead. I do like the idea of ZFS instead of RAID...
Anyways, thanks in advance for any suggestions.