SCVMM 2012 R2 configure VM config & vhdx file location?

Hi Guys,
I'm currently using a SAN with a hyper v cluster managed by SCVMM. In the VM templates, i don't see any option to configure the destination location for the VM's physical files though, not even in Hardware profile. The storage does not have SMI-S provider
yet, so LUN provisioning is done seperately on the SAN itself. Currently i have multiple LUN hooked up to the cluster, so i'd like to be able to chose where the VM files should be stored.
Any ideas?

Fantastic! I was looking the storage pool in the wrong way the whole time. Did to much of the manual stuff on Hyper V manager where you have to specific VM physical location.. Turns out you don't have to! And your "Storage classification" is really
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Hello,
we just created a virtual machine on Windows Server 2012 R2 on a dynamic vhdx file.
When the operating system (Redhat 5) formats the filesystem (100GB of size), then the vhdx file expands to 21 GB, although no data is written to the disk.
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The RedHat 6.5 is not supported guest system,
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P.P.S.
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Depends upon how you define the word 'support'. Microsoft has never supported any Linux operating system in the manner that it supports software it has written. In this case, support means providing fixes to the software code. That is pretty
standard across the board. RedHat does not support Microsoft applications or software, either.
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to enable cross-certification of the companies' virtualization
platforms. . . . . As a result, customers are able to
deploy heterogeneous virtualization environments comprising Microsoft
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available from both companies.
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Virtual processors
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x86 edition and x64 edition
1, 2, 3, or 4
CentOS 6.0-6.4
x86 edition and x64 edition
1, 2, 3, or 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5-5.8
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1, 2, 3, or 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
Red Hat certified.
x86 edition and x64 edition
1, 2, 3, or 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0-6.3.
x86 edition and x64 edition
1, 2, 3, or 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4
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1, 2, 3, or 4
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 with Service Pack 4
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1, 2, 3, or 4
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Drivers: IDE, SCSI, and networking
Services: Time synchronization, operating system shutdown, and heartbeat
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SCVMM 2012 R2 VM on SMB 3.0 file share cloning is not offloaded and painfully slow

I setup a test environment, it appears the SCVMM always use BITS to clone VM that was painfully slow
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Hi acacac1,
>>Actual: It appears SCVMM clone the VM files with BITS, it is painfully slow. All data travel through network. Estimated 30 minutes for 30GB file!
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Hello expert...
We had SCVMM 2012 R2 environment where Hyper-V host cluster was created ,cluster storage was added and VMs are highly available on cluster storage but it SCVMM 2012 R2 evaluation had got expired.
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>>error 13706 - the host network adapter is not associated with any logical networks
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===============================================================================================================================
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Hi Guillaume Pincon,
Please first update both server to latest update and turn off the Windows firewall for narrow down this issue then try build the cluster again, one of the cluster create condition is all the servers should have the same software updates (patches) and service
packs. If all above steps not work please post the second validation error information.
The related KB:
Hyper-V: Using Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732181(v=ws.10).aspx
I’m glad to be of help to you!
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