Chapter 6. Insight into Hyper-V Storage

In this chapter, we will dive deeper into Hyper-V storage, where we will discuss the various types of storage options available with Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V for a virtual machine in detail.

We will start this chapter by introducing what virtual storage is in a virtual machine, and then we will see the technical aspect of it. After this, we will move forward with the discussion of the different types of Hyper-V virtual storage. During this discussion, we will touch upon all types of virtual storage options offered by Hyper-V for a virtual machine. This will give a detailed overview of each type of storage. This section will help you plan the virtual storage for your server virtualization, so at any point you can come back to this and read it and refresh your memory, so you always choose the right type of storage for yourself.

After getting familiar with the various different storage options available for your virtual machine, we will then...