<div>
<div class="content wysiwyg-content">
I have recently set up a single hyper-V host with two guests VMs. The &nbsp;host is a HP Proliant DL380 G9 with 4 SATA drives in a RIAD 5 configuration, one drive being &nbsp;a hot spare.<br />
<br />
&nbsp;One server is a DC and also contains a SQL (EXPRESS) database and a virtual disk is attached which contains all of the user files and documents. The 2nd server is an RDS server.<br />
<br />
I was thinking of adding a 3rd virtual server as a second DC.<br />
<br />
My question is how do I increase the resilience of users access to their files. Can I someone duplicate the files across 2 servers or is this where a separate storage array comes in?
</div>
</div>


I have recently set up a single hyper-V host with two guests VMs. The  host is a HP Proliant DL380 G9 with 4 SATA drives in a RIAD 5 configuration, one drive being  a hot spare.

 One server is a DC and also contains a SQL (EXPRESS) database and a virtual disk is attached which contains all of the user files and documents. The 2nd server is an RDS server.

I was thinking of adding a 3rd virtual server as a second DC.

My question is how do I increase the resilience of users access to their files. Can I someone duplicate the files across 2 servers or is this where a separate storage array comes in?

Questions about storage in a Hyper-V environment

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.

Hyper-V

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

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.