Hyper -V host

Hi,
When setting up hyper -V and the host in particular, do you assign all of
the hard drive space on the raid to the host, and then assign as needed to
the VM's (in my case, 2 VM's)?
I have a HW raid 10 with 850G of disk space, so I think I need to assign t
he entire amount to the host, and then break out for each VM and VHD, correct?
Is there any reason to convert the disks to dynamic before creating VM's?

Mike

The general rule is that the host "owns" the storage space and provides the
VHDs to the guests. (The exception is in the rare case where you use
pass-through disks, but I generally avoid them.)

I would not make them dynamic.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel




"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E53801EB-AC7F-47A7-9352-5FC3C7D018FE@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> When setting up hyper -V and the host in particular, do you assign all of
> the hard drive space on the raid to the host, and then assign as needed to
> the VM's (in my case, 2 VM's)?
> I have a HW raid 10 with 850G of disk space, so I think I need to assign t
> he entire amount to the host, and then break out for each VM and VHD,
> correct?
> Is there any reason to convert the disks to dynamic before creating VM's?
>
> Mike
>

Charlie,

That is what I was thinking, and hoping, as I have my servers mostly set up
this way, but wanted to verify before I get it into production.

Mike


"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:

> The general rule is that the host "owns" the storage space and provides the
> VHDs to the guests. (The exception is in the rare case where you use
> pass-through disks, but I generally avoid them.)
>
> I would not make them dynamic.
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/blogs/russel
>
>
>
>
> "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E53801EB-AC7F-47A7-9352-5FC3C7D018FE@microsoft.com...
> > Hi,
> > When setting up hyper -V and the host in particular, do you assign all of
> > the hard drive space on the raid to the host, and then assign as needed to
> > the VM's (in my case, 2 VM's)?
> > I have a HW raid 10 with 850G of disk space, so I think I need to assign t
> > he entire amount to the host, and then break out for each VM and VHD,
> > correct?
> > Is there any reason to convert the disks to dynamic before creating VM's?
> >
> > Mike
> >
>