Hello,
I admit I am by no means a Hyper-V specialist, however I am having difficulty grasping the benefits of using Hyper-V with a Server 2012 File Server.
From the article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/jj134187.aspx and from http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com/training-courses/introduction-to-hyper-v-jump-start Part 4, they talk about configuring Hyper-V servers, that connect to a Server 2012 File Server.
Example scenario - we have 4 Hyper-V Hosts and are looking to create a Failover Cluster, 2 servers in each cluster. Our network is currently 1GBe and the hosts have 2 spare NICS
1) Connect the clusters directly to a SAN with iSCSI
2) Connect a Windows Server 2012 R2 File Server (or cluster) to a SAN. Present an SMB3 file share to the Hyper-V hosts.
Option 1 appears to be the better solution (unless I am missing something). They would have direct access to the storage and data would not have have to cross our network to the file server before retrieving information. Also are the file servers not "something else that could potentially go wrong"?
Are the benefits of ODX and other features provided by FS 2012 R2 going to provide a better solution?