So, in this article, it states:
"For a clustered host, either Windows Server-based or VMware-based, the default virtual machine path is a shared volume on the cluster that VMM automatically creates when you add the cluster as a host. When you add a clustered host, you cannot specify additional default paths in the Add Host Wizard. Also, after a host cluster is added, you cannot specify additional default virtual machine paths on thePlacement tab of the host properties."
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc917914.aspx
I also found this forum post, where he conceded that it was just impossible:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/systemcenter/en-US/d86eb2ed-c448-4e72-a983-240f28e9cdd4/unable-to-specify-default-vm-placement-path?forum=winserverhyperv
I have a CSV, "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\", and within that CSV a folder, in which all my virtual machines live, "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\Hyper-V". When I deploy a VM to a host, I can pick the placement path, and select "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\Hyper-V", however when I deploy a VM to a cloud, I have no option to pick placement path. I'd like to change my default placement path to be "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\Hyper-V", is this possible? I noted that the article said "Also, after a host cluster is added, you cannot specify additional default virtual machine paths on thePlacementtab of the host properties", I figured maybe that meant it was only changeable via powershell, so I executed the following command, and although it didn't throw any errors, it also didn't work:
$VMhost = Get-SCVMHost | ?{$_.name -eq "HOSTNAME.DOMAIN.LOCAL"} Set-VMHost -VMHost $VMhost -VMPaths "C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1|C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1\Hyper-V"
I have another cluster with multiple CSV's, one is a RAID 10 for increased performance, if I want to differentiate one cloud to be a high performance cloud, I see no way to specify that VMs created in one cloud would go into one CSV, and that another cloud would go into the standard CSV? There must be a way to do this? Is my onlysolution to remove my nodes one at a time and re-add them after modifying the placement path?
I need to change this, because if I deploy VMs into a cloud, with multiple CSV's,I must be able to pick a CSV, otherwise this functionality seems unusable? What if I had Five CSV's for various purposes, and five clouds, would I have to destroy the cluster to fix this?