I recently went down the road of trying to make local RAID storage HA. I’m currently trying products such as Starwind and Open-E. However, I’m now considering just going back to DFS-R.
Setup:
Two nodes at two locations for a total of four nodes. All running Windows 2012 Server with local storage.
Goal:
24/7 access to updated data at either location.
Thoughts:
- I know DFS-R will work as I’ve used it many times before, but never in close relation to Hyper-V. My storage is local, so I’m thinking that the DFS-R should sit directly on each Parent partition. Any arguments to the contrary?
- Is it worth looking into BranchCache too, or will that cause headaches when used with DFS-R?
- As for the VM’s, I’m pretty sure I can still make them HA using SMB 3.0, but I know Hyper-V Replica will go a long way if not. Thoughts?
- With regards to DFS-R, is Peerlock still the go to solution for making sure files are locked across the WAN?
Feel free to mention anything that I’m not smart enough to think of, thanks.