Installing and Configuring Scale-Out File Servers

Before you can install and configure SOFS, you need to make several deployment decisions, as well as understand the prerequisites:

  • You will need to decide the number of nodes within your SOFS cluster (this is from two to eight nodes).
  • Determine what kind of converged network you will have in place to support your SOFS cluster.
  • Determine what kind of storage you will have in place to support your SOFS cluster (Storage Spaces or SAN based).
  • Before you can implement SOFS, you will need to install features that are included in the File and Storage Services role and the Failover Clustering feature.
  • You will need to ensure that the cluster passes validation, create your Windows failover cluster, configure ...

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