I'm a total noob to storage and SANs and pretty new to Hyper-V and 2012 but I've been tasked with setting up a 2012 Hyper-V cluster on a 3PAR 7200 with 24 x 900GB 10K SAS drives in it. I'm about to wade through the Storage Concepts guide and the other material but I just wanted to throw a post out there and maybe get some insights while I'm reading and learning.
How should I go about provisioning this storage for Hyper-V? It's going to hold VMs and for all the common Microsoft 2012/13 services - Exchange, SharePoint, SQL 2012, Lync etc. It's a fairly small environment, there'll only be a couple of Exchange VMs, 2 Lync VMs, 3 or 4 SharePoint and on like that. Only 1000 users using it all. One thing I do want to setup is guest clustering with SQL 2012 so I'd need to separate some shared storage for that.
Do I create one big RAID1 CPG using all 24 disks and then two TPVVs to present one for use as the CSV for Hyper-V and one for use by the SQL cluster? Or should I be creating smaller TPVVs and using multiple CSVs? I'm not sure whether I should be chopping up this storage all at once or provisioning it as and when. I've read that less CSVs are better so I thought I should just do one big one.
As you can probably tell, I have no idea and have some learning to do but any advice you can give me would help, I've got a week to get this up and running