Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage
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I have a Hyper-V 2016 server with a virtual machine running on it. I've purchased 18.5TB worth of storage and I want to add this storage to the VM as a single large usable disk to be shared out for file sharing services.
When I look in Hyper-V I see 5 individual disks, the new ones. So how do I group all of these disks together so I can present a single disk to the VM to be shared out?
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I'm not a storage expert but I would think you would want to start by creating a RAID volume first. You're not going to be able to just add to your existing storage volume and you would need additional hdd slots in your server in order to add more storage...
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On Hyper-V, use file and storage services to create a pool of 5 drives?
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The system I am using is old. BIOS has no usable options for RAID and I don't know what a RAID controller is.
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@DustinB3403 So much fail in that
thread.#1 You don't use Windows Software RAID, if running Hyper-V and Windows on top as well, you use a real hardware RAID controller.
#2 Hyper-V made doing storage passthrough a PITA last I checked, so you add the drives as a single volume to the host and then create a single vhd that uses the entire space of the volume.
#3 An 18.5 TB array of 5 drives can not physically read all the data on the array in a reasonable amount of time, so you should be using a proper RAID10 or 6 instead of RAID0 (no possible way this can be used as a temporary cache.)
#4 While you could set this up how you are asking, it WILL FAIL
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
The system I am using is old. BIOS has no usable options for RAID and I don't know what a RAID controller is.
You don't know what a RAID controller is? Time to do some reading. Basically it's a logic card that manages the placement of data across multiple drives, depending on how you configure the RAID levels. Then it presents that to the OS as a single logical volume - the OS doesn't see the individual drives.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_array_controller
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels
What server do you have? Do you have a service tag?
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@dave247 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
The system I am using is old. BIOS has no usable options for RAID and I don't know what a RAID controller is.
You don't know what a RAID controller is? Time to do some reading.
What server do you have? Do you have a service tag?
The server is an HP Z600, the drives are 3.7TB each with a total of five drives.
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
@dave247 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
The system I am using is old. BIOS has no usable options for RAID and I don't know what a RAID controller is.
You don't know what a RAID controller is? Time to do some reading.
What server do you have? Do you have a service tag?
The server is an HP Z600, the drives are 3.7TB each with a total of five drives.
Probably consumer level 4TB drives that show up as 3.7TB to the system in this case.
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
HP Z600,
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01720141
You're probably going to want to re-think your setup.
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@travisdh1 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
#2 Hyper-V made doing storage passthrough a PITA last I checked, so you add the drives as a single volume to the host and then create a single vhd that uses the entire space of the volume.
You'd also almost never want to do this. It's stupid and breaks many of the advantages of virtualization. Let the hypervisor manage the storage.
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
The system I am using is old. BIOS has no usable options for RAID and I don't know what a RAID controller is.
So much fail - please send all this equipment back and resign from your company.
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@coliver said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
@travisdh1 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
#2 Hyper-V made doing storage passthrough a PITA last I checked, so you add the drives as a single volume to the host and then create a single vhd that uses the entire space of the volume.
You'd also almost never want to do this. It's stupid and breaks many of the advantages of virtualization. Let the hypervisor manage the storage.
isn't the host Travis is talking about Hyper-V? i.e. he is having the hypervisor manage the storage?
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@Dashrender said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
@coliver said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
@travisdh1 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
#2 Hyper-V made doing storage passthrough a PITA last I checked, so you add the drives as a single volume to the host and then create a single vhd that uses the entire space of the volume.
You'd also almost never want to do this. It's stupid and breaks many of the advantages of virtualization. Let the hypervisor manage the storage.
isn't the host Travis is talking about Hyper-V? i.e. he is having the hypervisor manage the storage?
I just connected the drives into the server and let Hyper-V start up. So I see 5 individual drives listed.
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@DustinB3403 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
@Dashrender said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
@coliver said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
@travisdh1 said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
#2 Hyper-V made doing storage passthrough a PITA last I checked, so you add the drives as a single volume to the host and then create a single vhd that uses the entire space of the volume.
You'd also almost never want to do this. It's stupid and breaks many of the advantages of virtualization. Let the hypervisor manage the storage.
isn't the host Travis is talking about Hyper-V? i.e. he is having the hypervisor manage the storage?
I just connected the drives into the server and let Hyper-V start up. So I see 5 individual drives listed.
What's the point of this thread? Clearly Dustin is not the one in need of help here - so this thread is just a troll?
moving on.
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@Dashrender said in Hyper-V Server 2016 - How should someone add 18.5 TB of storage:
so this thread is just a troll?
Yes.
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Checking the OP on SW, he is in Israel and self identifies as only having been in IT for a year.
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This post have the the threads
https://mangolassi.it/topic/18824/18tb-spanned-volume-with-consumer-grade-sata-drives -
Oh dear.....{sigh..}
