Windows clustering enables you to create a failover file server. When you cluster the file server role, one node in the cluster offers the SMB server features to the network based on shared storage. If that node fails, the cluster can fail over the file sharing service to another node and still access the shared storage. But the fail over can take some time and has some limitations.
An SOFS enables all nodes in the cluster to be active simultaneously. This provides for extra performance as well as improved fault tolerance. With an SOFS, you can hold Hyper-V virtual machine hard drives/configuration information and SQL databases. This recipe shows you how to set up an SOFS.
