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# microsoft-fslogixs
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Jarian Gibson
11/21/2019, 2:50 PMCA shares
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Jeff Muchnick
11/21/2019, 3:20 PMCA stand for?
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Lucas Van den Broeck
11/21/2019, 3:32 PMcontinuous availability, scale out cluster without scale out 😉
Lucas Van den Broeck
11/21/2019, 3:32 PMso just a file cluster with CA option enabled on those shares
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Jarian Gibson
11/21/2019, 3:35 PMyep that
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Nick Panaccio
11/21/2019, 3:38 PMI can unfortunately confirm that if the shares go down, Outlook crashed hard...
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Jeff Muchnick
11/21/2019, 3:43 PMNick was this with CA file cluster? What are the lessons learned?
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Nick Panaccio
11/21/2019, 3:43 PMThis was with a single file server using a DFS front-end. 🙂
Nick Panaccio
11/21/2019, 3:44 PMThat issue allowed me to force the server team into doing what I asked for the first time around, a file cluster with CA. We'll be migrating in January.
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Jeff Muchnick
11/21/2019, 3:48 PMThanks Nick for the clarification!!! What Server OS are you using?
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Nick Panaccio
11/21/2019, 3:50 PMServer 2016. I don't think we actually have any 2019 stuff yet. We're healthcare, and are a little slow to adopt.
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dready
11/21/2019, 5:11 PMWhen the sh*t hits the fan it’s good to have smaller failure domains, so distribution to multiple shares hosted on different servers might be something to consider at your scale.
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Austin Madison
12/03/2019, 6:14 PMDoes Microsoft SOFS require vSAN licensing when configuring on vSphere? From what it looks like you have to configure vSAN WSFC when configuring Microsoft SOFS on vSphere or I may be reading this all wrong.
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Kasper Johansen
12/04/2019, 2:06 PM@Austin Madison vSAN is not a prereq. As far as I see it, based on the WSFC whitepaper from VMware, you have to configure WSFC with Raw Device Mapped storage, to have a VMware supported solution, when the file cluster resources reside on different VMware hosts.
You can configure a WSFC using VMware shared disk, and that is supported as long as the file cluster resources are on the same VMware host. Putting the file cluster resources on different hosts also works, but is not supported by VMware.
VMware has an excellent whitepaper on how to configure MSCS and WSFC here:
https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-67-setup-mscs.pdf
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Austin Madison
12/04/2019, 2:17 PMThanks @Kasper Johansen for clarifying. Really appreciate it!
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