Now that we've covered the technical side of the storage you need for your Hyper-V server and virtual machines, before we finish with this chapter, we will discuss the best practices for Hyper-V storage from the perspective of both Hyper-V as a server side and storage for virtual machines. All these best practices that we will discuss in this chapter come from experience in real-world solution designing and troubleshooting. Choosing a wrong storage layout for your critical virtual workload may end up in your highly utilized workload suffering from performance issues, and if you are going to start your first virtualization project after the completion of this book, I would strongly recommend that you pay serious attention while designing your virtual machine storage selection, because with the wrong start you will face bottlenecks in your server's and application's performance and will also be disappointed in virtualization as a practice and a technology.

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