I have 7 physical servers I am trying to arrange in three clusters and leave out the 7th server.
Four of the servers are Hyper-V host to be two, two server clusters.
Two of the servers I am trying to make a files server cluster to use as storage for VMs of the two clusters.
The seventh server is running Hyper-V and I am using it for holding for migrations to the appropriate locations once the storage creation is completed.
All servers are running Server 2012R2. All have Teamed interfaces. All have 64 GB of memory.
The two for file services have file services and cluster services installed. They have 80 GB operating system volumes and 18 TB Data Volumes. I used cluster manager to make them a cluster. Cluster validation shows no drives available for clustered storage. Under Drives in cluster manager no drives are listed.
I have watched hours of Microsoft Videos on Hyper-V and File Services from their site, "Microsoft Virtual Academy" and read for months everything I can find that seems pertinent.
I confess, I am still not able to figure out the exact order for my particular set of circumstances and humbly ask for anyone's assistance.
What is the order of and what roles services, etc. must I make in order to have the two server cluster have storage available for Hyper-V to use as storage? I am not unfamiliar with Hyper-V or Windows Server. I just haven't had enough hardware to try Clustering until now.
The two file server currently have no data on their DATA volumes.
I am trying to do this as simply as possible, even if it is not best practices, I would like to follow them as well as I am able with our hardware.