Resilience solution for Folder Refirection

Question

the requirement are 2 nodes for safty of data, auto-failover, encryption of data(EFS?), file mamangement for quota,

I consider so many but no concludion,

Hyper-v replication - can it auto-failover? max 2T?

storage replication - who use bare metal? so, why not hyper v replicaion? data replicated, but support failover cluster?

storage space direct - bare metal? data replicated, but support failover cluster? why no hyper-v or storage replication?

failover cluster iscsi san - shared stoage not good, ReFS scaleout not support EFS and quota

Please help to comment and suggest, thanks.

Answer 1

Hey,

It would great to hear what exactly you are trying to accomplish.
As for your questions.

Hyper-V replication is used to replicate VMs from primary host on schedule. It doesn't support automatic failover, you can trigger it manually. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/virtualization/hyper-v/manage/set-up-hyper-v-replica

Storage replica is used to replicate Volumes between servers or clusters. It is a DR solution like Hyper-V replica. The main difference that SR allows you to replicate entire volumes with multiple VMs. In addition, it can be used to created stretched cluster. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-replica/storage-replica-overview

S2D - can be used in Failover Cluster. It is used as a shared storage for Failover Cluster. It support different protection levels across the cluster nodes (mirror, striped mirror, parity or dual parity). https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure-stack/hci/concepts/storage-spaces-direct-overview

SAN can also be used as a storage for Failover Cluster. You can still use NTFS as a ReFS alternative.

As for encryption, bitlocker can be used with Cluster Shared Volumes. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/failover-clustering/bitlocker-on-csv-in-ws-2022

In addition, StarWind Virtual SAN can be used to replicate storage between nodes and provide it as a shared storage to Failover Cluster. Check for more info: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/starwind-virtual-san

Cheers,

Alex Bykovskyi

StarWind Software

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