Hello experts,

I have an issue with presenting storage to my new hyper-v hosts.  When I try and Add storage from the properties of the host it is greyed out.  (Storage Tab).  When I try and add it for the cluster it also fails with a spurious error.  We don't have SMI-S for the storage so cannot add it as a provider.  Is there any other way of adding or presenting the storage without using SMI-S?

From the VMM server I can UNC to the storage and open the share no problem.  It just seems to be VMM which cannot see it.

Thanks.

• Edited by MattRW 21 hours 28 minutes ago

Hello,

To add storage from the SCVMM console, you need to use a SMI-S connector and it's not your case. Check with StarWind if you would like to do this without a SAN.

Hello experts,

I have an issue with presenting storage to my new hyper-v hosts.  When I try and Add storage from the properties of the host it is greyed out.  (Storage Tab).  When I try and add it for the cluster it also fails with a spurious error.  We don't have SMI-S for the storage so cannot add it as a provider.  Is there any other way of adding or presenting the storage without using SMI-S?

From the VMM server I can UNC to the storage and open the share no problem.  It just seems to be VMM which cannot see it.

Thanks.

SMI-S is just a protocol to talk to your storage. It's optional :)

Hello,

To add storage from the SCVMM console, you need to use a SMI-S connector and it's not your case. Check with StarWind if you would like to do this without a SAN.

Thanks for reference! :) We do indeed provide a solution to create a fault-tolerant from local disk replicating them between nodes. Something close ideologically to Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct (S2D?) but with only two nodes to start. + solution is FREE within this setup :) 

StarWind Virtual SAN Free

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san-free

Good luck :)