Hi Everyone,
We are trying to setup a cluster on Windows Server 2016 TP4 using 2 physical nodes, each with it's local storage and useStorage Spaces Direct to create a shared storage for the cluster. There is no network storage, only the nodes local storage.
Our plan is to use the storage pool made out of the local server's disks using Storage Spaces Direct, to host a high-available SMB share that will be used for VMs running on Flexiant Cloud Orchestrator (FCO) which can connect and host VMs on an SMB share (and in the future will be replaced with Hyper-V VMs).
I found few articles that describe how to configure it, but non is talking about the quorum requirement.
As there is no network storage with a LUN that will host the quorum, is there another option to create a quorum besides a File Share Witness?
I read here - http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=15340 - about the second option (Create a Storage Spaces Virtual Disk As A Witness Disk) but didn't fully understand how to configure it. Also, where should I create the virtual disk, on one of the cluster nodes? On
both? Will it be highly available?
Just to remind again, the storage is only local, which resides on the physical nodes of the cluster.
Thanks!