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AI-generatedHyper-V host cache support boundaries for shared virtual hard disks
Hyper-V exposes a host-level cache for virtual hard disks that keeps read data in host memory to reduce I/O latency, separate from any guest file-system cache. For shared virtual hard disks used in guest failover clusters, documented guidance has historically advised disabling this host cache because concurrent access from multiple hosts can return stale dat