Best method to add ISCSI storage to a fileserver vm guest

Hello,
I have two Dell PowerVault NX3300 servers (Server 2012 R2), and one Equallogic PS6100 SAN. The two servers are clustered together and host Hyper-V guests. At this point, I'm running a 2012 R2 VM guest and can successfully migrate/failover
between the nodes. This guest VM will be a file server, and it will be accessing/sharing data that is stored on the SAN. My question is: what is the best method to get the ISCSI SAN volume connected to this VM guest? Since the vm
guest is clustered between the two nodes, I need to make sure that it can access the SAN volume in an event of a failover.
*** Note: We plan on having a total of two different file server VM guests that will each connect to the SAN. There may be more guest VMs created in the future, but they would not be file servers.
Each server has 8 physical NICs and are configured as follows on each server:
1 x management port
3 x VM nic team
2 x SAN ISCSI connections
(That leaves 2 open ports on each server)
There is a ISCSI SAN volume attached to the hosts as the cluster's CSV. This is only to store VM guests - not data.
After reading multiple blog posts and other sites, I've come to realize that there may be two realistic options: (1) add the ISCSI SAN volume directly to the hosts, then add the disk to the VM as a pass-through and let the cluster configure it; (2)
add the ISCSI SAN volume directly to the VM guest.
Option 2 sounds simpler, but I'm also curious as to the best configuration of vNICs for the guest.
Any help with this would be great. If I'm missing something, please let me know!
Thank you

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