Dears,
I need to build a virtual database server (Solaris) on Windows 2012 R2 hyper-v , and im concerning about the database performance since i have to use VHD/VHDx storage hosted on a SAN storage , i can't use pass-through disks , nor virtual fiber Adapter , the only available option is the VHD/VHDx storage.
So my Q. is , what is exactly the relation between the VHD file and the SAN storage , does the SAN storage consider the VHD as a file , where a minimum number of disks will be used to store the file , or the VHD file is extracted in the SAN storage which means many spindles will work when you request index or table ?
im attaching 1 TB of SAN storage as a CSV to the Hyper-V hosts , and im using it to create VHD disks for VMs , so i guess i need a tool to measure the Max. IOPs of the attached SAN storage.
BR, Mohamed Wahab "Egypt Cyber Center"