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July 18th, 2018 23:00

Isilon as storage to Hyper-V environment?

Hi All,

We have requirement to use isilon shares to Hyper-V environment to create VM for apps & DB’s load.


is it isilon as a storage to Hyper-V environment supported?

If its supported, please shares if any documents avail with best practice to configure storage in Hyper-V.


Thanks in advance.

  • crklosterman

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    Posted July 23rd, 2018 13:00

    Not supported last time I checked.  Hyper-V requires specific components of SMBv3.0 that last I heard had not yet been implemented.  That certainly could have changed recently, so you all can correct me if I'm wrong.  But in general it's a really bad idea.  Why?  Because a .VHD file, like a .VMDK file for Vmware is a single large file.  Data is protected on Isilon at the file level, not at the block level.  Also read-ahead caching on Isilon isn't going to work terribly well within a single large file when you have random reads.  Put this workload on a block array like Unity over iSCSI or FC, not on Isilon over SMB.  Also Isilon has a max file size limit of 4TB, so no one file (or drive) could ever be more than 4TB.

    ~Chris