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3 Dell EMC PowerVault ME4 Series and Microsoft Hyper-V | 3921-BP-WS
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Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
Audience ............................................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 5
1.1 ME4 Series overview .......................................................................................................................................... 5
1.2 Microsoft Hyper-V overview ................................................................................................................................ 6
1.3 Best practices overview ...................................................................................................................................... 6
1.4 General best practices for Hyper-V .................................................................................................................... 7
2 Design best practices ................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Right-size the storage array ............................................................................................................................... 8
2.2 Linear and virtual disk groups, pools, and RAID configuration .......................................................................... 8
2.3 Determine optimal transport and front-end configuration ................................................................................... 9
3 Administration best practices ..................................................................................................................................... 11
3.1 Guest integration services ................................................................................................................................ 11
3.2 Hyper-V guest VM generations ........................................................................................................................ 13
3.3 Virtual hard disks .............................................................................................................................................. 14
3.4 Present ME4 Series storage to Hyper-V .......................................................................................................... 18
3.5 Optimize format disk wait time for large volumes ............................................................................................. 22
3.6 Placement of page files .................................................................................................................................... 22
3.7 Placement of Active Directory domain controllers ............................................................................................ 23
3.8 Queue depth best practices for Hyper-V .......................................................................................................... 23
4 ME4 Series snapshots with Hyper-V .......................................................................................................................... 25
4.1 Crash-consistent and application-consistent snapshots .................................................................................. 25
4.2 Guest VM recovery with ME4 Series snapshots .............................................................................................. 25
4.3 Create test environment with ME4 Series snapshots ....................................................................................... 29
4.4 Migrate guest VMs with ME4 Series storage ................................................................................................... 29
A Technical support and additional resources ............................................................................................................... 30
A.1 Related resources ............................................................................................................................................ 30