Q. Can I use pass-through disks with Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV)?

A. No. If you want to use pass-through disks with a guest partition on a Hyper-V server, the disk must not be mounted on the parent partition. With CSV, the disk is mounted as a subfolder under the ClusterStorage folder. The coordinator node writes metadata and all nodes in the cluster write normal block level information, which is the majority of write activity, directly to the volume. This means the disk is mounted on nodes in the cluster, so it can't be used as a pass-through disk to a child partition.

See also:
How do I create a failover cluster in Windows Server 2008?
Is a Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 mixed-cluster possible?
How can I add disk resources to a Windows Server 2008 cluster from the command line?
How do cluster shared volumes work in Windows Server 2008 R2?

Videos:
How to Manage Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2008
Configure Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering from the Command Line


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