Configuring Windows Server Failover Cluster storage options
Any clustering technology must incorporate support for a distributed filesystem that allows for efficient operations and access to shared storage across all cluster nodes while reducing data corruption and improving failover speed and workload distribution.
The options that can be used for Failover Cluster shared storage are as follows:
- Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) or internal/direct attached storage enables a highly available and incredibly scalable replication of storage across nodes by providing an easy approach to pooling and distributing locally attached storage across multiple cluster nodes.
- iSCSI, shared Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS), Storage Area Network (SAN), or Fibre Channel (FCoE) storage.
- CSV with NT File System (NTFS) or Resilient File System (ReFS) provides a multi-host read/write access filesystem to a shared disk. Hosted applications can then read/write to the same shared data location from...