Many physical disk to one in Hyper-V

Right now I run some server that I like to put them all in Hyper-V

But one is my own mediaserver that have many physical disk in RAID 0.

I have RAID 0 just to have one big harddrive for my files

I don't know what is the best way to do that in Hyper-V

Do I have to create 3 virtual harddrive of my 3 harddrives and then connect them to one server and then create a RAID 0?

July 5th, 2015 2:08pm

I have RAID 0 just to have one big harddrive for my files

Raid 0 would be a poor choice in general as there is no fault tolerance. Lose any disk and the whole thing is gone.

 

 

 

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July 5th, 2015 2:25pm

The information you gave is not great, so don't really know what you mean. Need to know more to answer your question. But I will try to give you some information:

No, you should never create more Virtual Hard Disk files for your Virtual Machine(s) to get RAID 0. A guest OS (VM) should never establish RAID because it is usesless. You should always configure RAID at the physical layer, not the virtual layer. Most often a RAID configuration is hardware-based, managed by your RAID controller and presented as a single disk to your Operating System. Unless your configured a software-based RAID set through Windows.

Hyper-V has nothing to do with RAID or no-RAID. Just make sure your server has a RAID 0 set with the Operating System on it and the Hyper-V role enabled. Then create a single VHD for each VM. Of course you can add additional virtual hard disks to your VMs for certain purposed. But not for a RAID configuration.

July 5th, 2015 2:29pm

Dave:
Yes I know Raid 0 have a no fault tolerance but I have more then one copy of the file on other server too.

I think it is a less chance that both my original and my backup get problem when the both is not even in the same building and if I get problem with the one of them I don't do anything until I get it fix.

I don't need any super security when I'm talking about what I have at home :)

Boudewijn:
Sorry about the poor information, English is not my first language and is not so easy to describe technical english so people understand what I mean.

Well yes the best is to use Hardware RAID card but is hard to find a good cheap RAID card, that why I use Software RAID instead.

Many motherboard have cheap RAID system inside but I don't know how good it is.

That I was thinking about use is that I have one harddrive (HD1) for my Virtual Machines and 3 harddisk (HD2,HD3,HD4) as a RAID that I have my files on that I connect to one of my Virtual Machine.

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July 5th, 2015 5:11pm

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