Windows Server 2012 R2 introduced a lot of new storage features, and Microsoft MVP Aidan Finn introduces us to Dynamic Quorum in this helpful introductory article.
Make your IT administration easier with Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012’s ability to pause and drain clusters.
Use just a little bit o’ RAM or a lot! Learn to enable Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) Cache to improve the read performance of CSV in WS2012!
Discover how disks, networks, servers, and Storage Bricks play a part in designing a SOFS in part 2 of this series.
WWMSD? Ever wonder how Microsoft would design a SOFS for storage over SMB 3.0 networking with transparent failover? Find out more in part 1 of this series.
Are you down with CSV? Find out more about Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) and learn to create one in this introduction.
Want to schedule against the cluster, instead of a per-server job? Learn about scheduled cluster tasks in WS2012 and how to implement them.
Need to validate a Windows Server failover cluster? Find out what makes a supported cluster and learn to validate a Windows Server cluster configuration.
What’s in a name? Learn to standardize the naming of Windows failover cluster components in this helpful how-to article.
Check out our review of DataON Storage DNS-1640 JBOD, used for clustered Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 (WS2012) and Windows Server 2012 R2 (WS2012 R2).