Dear Microsoft Employees,
could you please answer the following question:
A customer of me plans to deploy a new File Server Cluster. The plan is to deploy 2 physical boxes and 2 virtual Servers as a 4-node Cluster.
My question: is it officially supported, to use the Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Standard for the physical Servers and Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard for the virtual Servers? The customer is fully licensed with Server 2012 R2 for the virtual Servers and has appropriate CALs already purchased. The Background of the question is to save money when purchasing the physical servers (approx. 800€ für Server Standard vs. approx. 400€ for Storage Server Std.).
Thank you!
Kidn regards, David