PVE nested inside Hyper-V: Preferred Storage Configuration

[thomas-hn]

Hi,

currently I am running PVE nested inside Hyper-V on a Win10 Pro machine. I know this is not perfect, but at the moment I have no option to run a bare-metal machine and have to use the Win10 machine .

What is the preferred configuration of the PVE storage in this case?

• Shall I add a SMB/CIFS share of a Win10 NTFS folder to PVE for storing the VMs?
• Shall I add further VHDX virtual disk to the Hyper-V PVE machine and use e.g. LVM or LVM-Thin on it?

Beside the drawback of the nested virtualization I only have the option to provide "some kind of Windows storage" to PVE for storing the VMs.

Thanks a lot for your recommendations in advance,

Thomas

 

[Philipp Hufnagl]

You probably want the virtual disk. A network storage is probably to slow to run an operating system from

 

[thomas-hn]

You probably want the virtual disk. A network storage is probably to slow to run an operating system from

Would you go with LVM or LVM-Thin inside the virtual disk or is there a better option for the VMs?