Hyper-V convert to direct disk

My 2012 R2 Server is running on 5 RAID6 HDDs + 1 spare (WD REDs). It's used as a storage server, with two Windows 8.1 Pro Hyper-V clients. The problem is that the disk access in general is kind of slow.
So my idea is to move the windows to RAID1 SSD, and move both Hyper-V clients to another RAID1 SSD, and keep RAID6 HDDs just for users files storage.
Both Hyper-V setup as dynamic disk files. Is there a way to convert them and run them as direct disk access from SSD divided into two partitions?
Thanks so much for any help.

Hi!
A vhd file can not be converted into actual physical storage using Hyper-V tools. Neither does Hyper-V use physical partitions, but rather the entire disk if you wan't your VMs to access physical storage directly.
You need to bring your SSD disks offline in the Hyper-V host disk manager, so that Hyper-V can present the disks to virtual Machines. This is called a "pass-through" disk.
Then you need to migrate the contents from the vhd file on to the physical disk used in the VM. You can attach a vhd in the hosts disk manager, or mount both disks to the VM and clone the contents from the vhd on to the pass-through disk using an imaging
software such as Ghost.

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