Question about Hyper-V role in Server 2012

[Defcon1]

As I understand it, if you enable the Hyper-V role, in effect it virtualizes Server 2012 itself to run on top of Hyper-V. After this, do you still get access to the raw hardware (video, disk APM, SMART etc) or not?

Because when using Hyper-V server, things like SMART aren't passed thru by the virtual driver it uses.

I want to use Server Essentials 2012 R2 as my main OS and VM's on it using Hyper-V.

 

[cesmith9999]

yes that is the design. all of the hardware is passed through to the desktop instance.

SMART data is passed through. that is a requirement for Storage Spaces to work properly. what adapters are you using?

Chris

 

[Defcon1]

Thanks, it wasn't clear but I read more about Hyper-V and it runs in a special root partition with privileges and the full kernel/drivers.

The adapter will be LSI flashed to IT mode, forgot the exact model number. Should I consider Proxmox as an option, and then run WSE 2012 on top of it, would that allow native disk access to DrivePool running inside Windows?

 

[cesmith9999]

No it will not. what are you trying to do? it seems like you are using 2 technologies when you only need 1 of them.

Chris

 

[Defcon1]

To manage storage I decided on using DrivePool which needs Windows, and I was trying to see which hypervisor I could use.

 

[cesmith9999]

ok. 3 technologies... what are the most guest OS are you going to run? if *nix then I would just recommend Proxmox only. if windows then I would do 2012 R2 (2016 soon)...

Chris