Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Installation and Configuration Guide

Chapter 9

Virtual SAN Storage and Guest Clustering

Virtual Fibre Channel, a new feature to Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, provides the capability to present a virtual host bus adapter (HBA) inside a virtual machine. The benefit is that the virtual machine then has direct access to the Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric. Virtual Fibre Channel also provides new capabilities in terms of an additional shared storage architecture for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and guest clustering. Previously, iSCSI was the only storage option available when implementing guest clustering. Virtual Fibre Channel also serves as an alternative hardware-based I/O path to the virtual hard disk. Now physical workloads that may have previously leveraged Fibre ...