topic RDS Disk Design Question in Microsoft Virtualization Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Microsoft-Virtualization-Discussions/RDS-Disk-Design-Question/m-p/65745#M3287 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We're looking to deploy 100 "personal" VM's with RDS 2012.&nbsp; We are running these VM's on Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V, however our NetApp is running 7-mode and seems to be unable to host SMB3 shares to use for my VM disks.&nbsp; How would the following scenario play out?</P><P></P><P>Create Server 2012 R2 file servers on our VMware Farm, with the VMDK's hosted on the NetApp via NFS.&nbsp; From the Microsoft file server VM present SMB3 shares to Hyper-V for the personal VM's.</P><P></P><P>This seems to be the only away around not having to do a cluster mode upgrade to our filer.&nbsp; Unless anyone else has any suggestions?&nbsp; I would use local storage, however we're looking to cluster two servers to make the environment HA.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:33:36 GMT JOHNSTONA 2025-06-05T05:33:36Z RDS Disk Design Question https://community.netapp.com/t5/Microsoft-Virtualization-Discussions/RDS-Disk-Design-Question/m-p/65745#M3287 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>We're looking to deploy 100 "personal" VM's with RDS 2012.&nbsp; We are running these VM's on Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V, however our NetApp is running 7-mode and seems to be unable to host SMB3 shares to use for my VM disks.&nbsp; How would the following scenario play out?</P><P></P><P>Create Server 2012 R2 file servers on our VMware Farm, with the VMDK's hosted on the NetApp via NFS.&nbsp; From the Microsoft file server VM present SMB3 shares to Hyper-V for the personal VM's.</P><P></P><P>This seems to be the only away around not having to do a cluster mode upgrade to our filer.&nbsp; Unless anyone else has any suggestions?&nbsp; I would use local storage, however we're looking to cluster two servers to make the environment HA.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:33:36 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Microsoft-Virtualization-Discussions/RDS-Disk-Design-Question/m-p/65745#M3287 JOHNSTONA 2025-06-05T05:33:36Z