I am trying to deploy a 2 nodes Hyper-V Failover cluster in a closed environment. My current setup is 2 servers as hypervisors and 1 server as AD DC + Storage server. All 3 are running Windows Server 2012 R2.
Since everything is running on Ethernet, my choice of storage is between iSCSI and SMB3.0 ?
I am more inclined to use SMB3.0 and I did find some instructions online about setting up a Hyper-V cluster connecting to a SMB3.0 File server cluster. However, I only have budget for 1 storage Server. Is it a good idea to choice SMB over iSCSI in this scenario? ( where there is only 1 storage for the Hyper-V Cluster ).
What do I need to pay attention to in this setup? Except some unavoidable single points of failures.
In the SMB3.0 File server cluster scenario that I mentioned above, they had to use SAS drives for the file server cluster (CSV). I am guessing in my scenario, SATA drives should be fine, right?