Jose Barreto: I previously covered the storage options for Hyper-V and described the many choices between directly attached or SAN storage, fibre channel or iSCSI, passthrough or VHD, Virtual SCSI or Virtual IDE, etc. If you missed that one, check it out at http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2008/02/14/storage-options-for-windows-server-2008-s-hyper-v.aspx
However, I failed to mention in that post the option to store your VHD files in a CIFS/SMB file server share. This works fine with Hyper-V, although everyone is quick to remind me that this would be slower than block storage, if all else is the same. However, with faster IP networks (including 10Gb Ethernet) and the improvements in the SMB v2 protocol, you might be tempted by the added flexibility in your storage management.
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