Hello,
we have a requirement for high availabilty for a network share on a file server. we only have one physical server (its a small business), the host is server 2012, and there are two VM's, one VM is server 2008 R2 Standard, the other is 2012. due to compatibility we currently can not upgrade 2008 R2 to 2012. The DFS is purely to provide redundancy for if a VM were to fail or reboot due to reconfigs or updates during the business hours, i am not aiming to accomodate physical failure so im well aware of this.
would there be any issues with having DFS configured in each of these VM's? what happens when it comes to stuff like clients determing latency and which DFS server to connect to? i have configured DFS before, but usually between two seperate physical servers...... im wondering how this would work on the same physical server with two VMs.... what issues am i likely to have if any?
thanks
Steve