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I need some recommendations on my company's new file server cluster

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I have two Windows Server 2008 R2 boxes.

Each box has 3TB of space.

I would like to configure a Fail Over Cluster such that a File Sever continues to operate in the event one server goes down.

Ideally, I would have two servers (acting as two nodes) connected over network to a dedicated shared storage (SAN/NAS). However that's not the boat I'm in.

Currently, I have a VHD connected over iSCSI and turned into a "Dynamic Disk" in RAID1. This is working pertty well. But I have a feeling it's a very dumb idea. Extremely dumb even. So dumb I'm wondering why I did it.

So should I instead use DFS? Or will I be able to cluster?

All of the guides I have read (both here, and on the greater Internets) mostly point to 3 elements to a cluster: 2 file servers. 1 shared storage.

But as I described above - I only have 2 file servers that happen to have a lot of capacity.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

EDIT: I should point out that we're a small business with no dedicated IT staff. And if you haven't guessed already, I am very new to clustering/san/nas/dfs/insert-acronym-here.


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