• IT Systems Engineering

    Behavior of CSVs in Hyper-V 2012

    I have a few observations about CSVs in a Hyper-V 2012 cluster: 1. Online/Offline status in Disk Management. Take a look at the screenshot below. I was troubled by seeing the CSV offline. I thought there was a problem (not really). Here is how the cluster works: The CSV shows up as an online disk only on the cluster node which is managing is (or is the owner of that CSV). If you change the owner of that CSV to another node, the CSV disk will go offline on this node. However both nodes can still access the CSV via C:\ClusterStorage\vol2 2. Cannot map a drive to view CSV contents:…