Tag: SMB 3.0

Windows Server 2012 SMB Transparent Failover with vSphere Part 2: Create/Test the Cluster

October 14, 2012

In Part 1 of this short series of configuring Windows Server 2012 SMB transparent failover we configured two VMs using the vSphere 5.1 web client to access shared RDMs. Then mounted and formatted on one node with a 16KB allocation size, to better optimize shadow copies for share folder performance. Now that...

Windows Server 2012 SMB Transparent Failover with vSphere Part 1: Configure RDMs

October 14, 2012

Windows Server 2012 is Microsoft's biggest server OS release since Windows 2000. The number of features, enhancements, and optimizations is mind boggling. One major area of focus was SMB, which is Server Message Block. SMB is the protocol used to access file shares across the network. SMB 3.0 was introduced with...