Best Volume/Partition Allocation for Hyper-V

[Van Rue]

I have not fired up my VSAN yet, trying to get some questions out of the way. Is it better to create a Virtual VSAN disk in Starwind for each Hyper-V virtual machine (and place each disk on its own hardware partition or volume? Or is the system resilient enough to pool Hyper-V virtual hard drives on one larger Starwind Virtual Disk. I am not sure of the net effects, limitations or risks of one virtual hard drive inside another.

What are the best options for allocating space, volumes and disks for VHDX files by balancing maximizing space, simplifying management and limiting defragmentation?

[PoSaP]

Hello,
The best options are depending on your Production needs. As far as I know, Starwind doesn't care about the number of VM's inside.
I hope links below will help you.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Fo ... Clustering
http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/23-best-p ... rformance/
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Fo ... Clustering

[Michael (staff)]

Hello PoSaP,
Thank you for the useful links.

Hello Van Rue,
You can put several virtual machines on one StarWind device and it will work fine. There are no any special recommendations from StarWind here.

[Van Rue]

thanks, thought so but just wanted to be sure...

[Michael (staff)]

You are always welcome!