Can Tiered Storage be created within VMs?

I have a Server 2012 R2 cluster.
I plan to create a shared cluster volume that uses SSD drives. This shared cluster volume would then have the usual VHDX files for the VMs.
My desire was for one VM to use tiered storage that would be comprised of one ordinary virtual drive and another virtual drive that resided on the SSD shared cluster volume.
To test the concept I created a VM with two virtual hard drives, but when I use the wizard the tiered storage option is not available with a message saying that it must have a hard drive and a SSD drive. So it will not do it.
Is there a way to get around this? Would power shell do it?
Thanks for any help.
You can do it. Can have some issues with reporting virtual disks as "spindle" or as "flash" but that's doable with PowerShell. See:
Automated Tiered Storage with Windows Server 2012 R2
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2013/09/13/step-by-step-build-an-automated-storage-tiers-lab-with-windows-server-2012-r2-and-powershell.aspx#.UzPMgfl_uSo
"Well, if the Windows Server 2012 R2 guest operating system doesn’t see these disks as “SSD” and “HDD”
disks, it won’t know how to tier storage properly across them. And, that’s where PowerShell comes in! Using PowerShell 4.0 in Windows Server 2012 R2, we can create a new Storage Pool and specifically tag the 250GB virtual hard disks with an SSD media
type and tag the 500GB virtual hard disks with an HDD media type. This will allow us to build a tiered storage lab environment with "simulated" SSD and HDD tiers. "
Also similar question asked (and answered) recently here on TechNet forums, see:
Storage Pool Media Type Unknown
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/cd9b0db9-72db-436a-874f-028c0cb1dcde/storage-pool-media-type-unknown
Hope this helped :)
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