Adding CSVs on Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Failover Cluster

In the first part of this article I have added some physical and virtual disk to my Dell iSCSI storage. Of course new vdisks do not appear immediately in the failover cluster manager console.

 

So I opened up my disk management console on my hyper-v host.

 

As you can see a new raw disk appears. We should bring it online, initialize, format and provide the disk a descriptive name.

.. and try to add it again by the FCM console - this time surely with success. But this is going to be only an "available storage" - still needs to be added to the failover role.

 

It's a good practice to rename the new disk to ease further identification and error hunting.

Voila, the new clustered virtual disk is ready to host my new VM's image files, you know the .vhdxs and so on.

Create a new virtual disk / disk group on a Dell PowerVault MD3220i

I've recently added two 1TB disks to a PowerVault MD3220i to be used as backup storage in a RAID1 mirror.

No pools, my setup here requires a new group.

Let's begin. Since I have two new hot-added disks, the software intelligent enough to recognize the situation.

Name the physical array and choose manual mode, just to be on the safe side.

RAID1, choose disks and don't forget to click on Calculate Capacity. Then, Finish.

YES we want to do it.

Capacity, name... and I map it to my host group right here and now.

We've done here. I don't want to create an other virtual disk since I've used up all my available disk space.

Wait approx. an hour till the new 1TB virtual disk gets ready.(See the green bar on the bottom?) (Time applies for 7200RPM SATA3 disks.)

The second part of this artice is here.