Comments on: Hyper-V Administrators Exhibit Advanced Memory Skills

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:37:31 +0000

Steeve, what you say is true on each individual host, but not when monitoring from SCOM.

By: Steeve

Steeve — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:24:08 +0000

When you use Hyper-V R2 with CSV, if you follow the correct steps, you will get a mount point like this c:\ClusterStorage\Volume1 where “Volume1, Volume2 etc..” is your fabulous GUID… It’s just a different approach rater than use D:\ E:\ F:\…

By: Eric Gray

Eric Gray — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:09:41 +0000

Exactly.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:37:10 +0000

But you never need to deal with them directly, specially for monitoring.

By: PiroNet

PiroNet — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:54:56 +0000

VMFS Volume UUID is also undecipherable… Is it really? -> http://wp.me/pvGaC-dZ

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By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:55:10 +0000

I don’t understand the irony, it soooo easy to deal with friendly names such as “\\?\Volume{d5ad02f4-4e30-11ed-b1db-ca8c6df4064b}\” !

By: NiTRo

NiTRo — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:01:56 +0000

I get it ! Rain Man was an Hyper-V admin

By: Some

Some — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:09:01 +0000

Windows has supported mount points since windows 2000. What’s preventing mount points from being used for these. The GUIDS for volumes have always been there, every drive letter still has a GUID associated with the actual backend volume..

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