Havn't found answers in MS documentation and blogs for the following two questions:
1. With Hyper-V 2012 and failover clustering, it's possible to deploy HA VM's either to HA SMB 3.0 fileshares or to CSV's (like with previous Windows server versions). What are the advantages and disadvantages of using SMB 3.0 or CSV's? Is there any comparision table available of both solutions?
2. Have to deploy a 2 node cluster with a HP MSA 2000 G3 shared SAS storage. This should be supported and is documented in http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj822937.aspx and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/clustering/archive/2012/06/02/10314262.aspx. But both guides mention that it's necessary to create storage space(s) either before or after creating the failover cluster. But I can't see the reason why I have to create a storage space as an "additional layer", because the MSA 2000 can provide several different RAID protected volumes to Windows with the internal SW, like any other iSCSI or FC SAN provides LUN's. Are "storage space(s)" mandatory with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) connected physical disk?
Thank you all in advance for any help!
Franz