Your role of Network Administrator at ABC.com includes the management of the Active Directory Domain
Services (AD DS) domain named ABC.com. The network includes servers that run Windows Server 2012.
A Windows Server 2012 named ABC-DFS1 runs the Distributed File System (DFS) role. The company has
purchased four new servers. You plan to install Windows Server 2012 with the failover clustering role on the
new servers and configure all four servers as nodes in a single failover clustering cluster.
You need to configure a highly available folder on the cluster. The folder will be a target in a DFS namespace
and will be replicated to other servers on the network. You need to ensure that the folder can configured as a
DFS target and be replicated to other servers using DFS replication (DFSR).
How should you configure the failover cluster?
A.
You should configure the affinity option.
B.
You should configure the possible owner option.
C.
You should configure the Scale-Out File Server option
D.
You should configure the File Server for General Use option.
E.
You should configure the preferred owner option.
Right.
Scale-Out File Server for application data This clustered file server feature was introduced in Windows Server 2012, and it lets you store server application data, such as Hyper-V virtual machine files, on file shares, and obtain a similar level of reliability, availability, manageability, and high performance that you would expect from a storage area network. All file shares are simultaneously online on all nodes. File shares associated with this type of clustered file server are called scale-out file shares. This is sometimes referred to as active-active. This is the recommended file server type when deploying either Hyper-V over Server Message Block (SMB) or Microsoft SQL Server over SMB.
File Server for general use This is the continuation of the clustered file server that has been supported in Windows Server since the introduction of Failover Clustering. This type of clustered file server, and therefore all the shares associated with the clustered file server, is online on one node at a time. This is sometimes referred to as active-passive or dual-active. File shares associated with this type of clustered file server are called clustered file shares. This is the recommended file server type when deploying information worker scenarios.