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What good is clustering if you have to do that? =)

Wow, someone knows the definition of the word appreciation!

Hey webguyz - are you running File or Block I/O under Hyper-V? I am running Block but I was curious what you were doing.

I had a similar problem on my production data network, turned out to be a bad switch. Like symm said, I would rule out other hardware issues.

***breathes sign of relief as he realizes he doesn't have to spend $25,000 for an equallogic san***

Awesome! Let us know when you've tried it out.

CuppaT, how does live migration work without the CSV feature? Are you only putting one VM on each LUN?

I run Hyper-V R1 and I have always used Block I/O and have had no issues with it. I haven't tried File I/O so who knows, if you try it and it runs better let me know!

I installed the Remote Server Administration Tools on my Windows 7 Laptop and I manage the servers from it.

P.S. - Thanks for the update To-M!

Sorry to be a pest about this, but is everyone on vacation or something? I am trying to budget for next year and I need to know if this is going to be fixed or not, or at least given some type of...

Bump - no word from support on this issue?

Well, as soon as this is fixed and I deploy R2 I will be running Server Core R2 Enterprise, because it gives you 4 free virtual licenses of Enterprise Server to run under Hyper-V.

To-M, still no...

So the way you're running right now is one lun per VM correct? That's the only way I can think of it working without CSV's.

Without CSV's I just don't even see the point in doing a full HA...

Thanks for putting all your work into CuppaT, you are doing exactly what I am planning to do! Your results are exactly what I was afraid of.

I don't know about anyone else, but this is a huge dealbreaker for me. My plan is to cluster my Hyper-V Servers and I can't do that until this is resolved. Unless this is resolved I'm going to be...

Robotbeat - does RAID scrubbing effect performance at all? Should I only do it on a weekend or can I run it anytime? I have an Areca RAID Controller as well. I never even knew about this.

Since Windows Server 2008 R2 will introduce Cluster Shared Volumes, this feature won't really matter - correct?

What tests besides iometer might you want me to run To-M or anyone else?

I am running a dual quad core intel server with 16 GB of RAM for Hyper-V

My virtual machines are on a 4 x 750 GB drive...

Okay, I'll try to do some testing to find out which is better.

Can To-M or anyone else give me a simpler explanation of the difference between Block and File I/O and what circumstances might call...

Hi Everyone,

I am using Microsoft's Hyper-V Virtualization software with Open-E and it seems to be working great.

My question is would File I/O work even better than Block I/O is working for me...