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You can do that. &nbsp;I did it when I created a MS virtual server cluster.(Not a good thing but that is a different discussion). &nbsp;It works fine. &nbsp;Are you doing it just for disk space? &nbsp;Are you looking to get anything else out of utilizing the SAN.
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You can do that.  I did it when I created a MS virtual server cluster.(Not a good thing but that is a different discussion).  It works fine.  Are you doing it just for disk space?  Are you looking to get anything else out of utilizing the SAN.

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The SAN storage is already attached to a host that is a physical server but is EOL. Since the server is merely used as a repository we decided to move to a virtual environment and move the LUN to the new VM host.<br />
Hope that clarifies things.<br />
David
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The SAN storage is already attached to a host that is a physical server but is EOL. Since the server is merely used as a repository we decided to move to a virtual environment and move the LUN to the new VM host.
Hope that clarifies things.
David

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Thanks for your assistance, your efforts are greatly appreciated.<br />
David
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Thanks for your assistance, your efforts are greatly appreciated.
David

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We have a Microsoft Virtaul Server 2005 host with SAN attached HBA. The virtual host can see the LUN assigned to the server. We need a virtual machine guest to utilize the storage space on the LUN(the host will not use the storage space). Can we create a drive on the host and just map to the drive from the guest?<br />
We already have servers attached to the SAN and can map drives to the storage space from our management stations, so this seems possible but do not want to employ this approach if there are any caveats that we are not aware of.<br />
Thanks<br />
David
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We have a Microsoft Virtaul Server 2005 host with SAN attached HBA. The virtual host can see the LUN assigned to the server. We need a virtual machine guest to utilize the storage space on the LUN(the host will not use the storage space). Can we create a drive on the host and just map to the drive from the guest?
We already have servers attached to the SAN and can map drives to the storage space from our management stations, so this seems possible but do not want to employ this approach if there are any caveats that we are not aware of.
Thanks
David

MS VM guest and SAN LUN access

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.