Hi,
We are looking to implement a 2-node 2012 R2 Scale-out File Server cluster (using SAS JBOD enclosure) for the primary purpose of storing the VHD files that will be accessed by a 4-node 2012 R2 Hyper-V cluster using 10 gigabit Ethernet (no RDMA). Our environment can be characterised as having a large number of mostly idle VMs that experience sporadic, low intensity use (this is *not* a VDI environment). We have 2 questions.
1) To what extent is RAM a consideration for the SoFS servers? We can't find any documentation to suggest that there are benefits to be gained by having more RAM in the SoFS servers but we don't know if we should go with 8/16/32/64+ GB RAM in each of the nodes.
2) With the need to keep costs down, we don't think RDMA / SMB-Direct NICs are going to be within our reach. Should we however look to have 2 * dual-port 10 Gbps NICs in both the SoFS & Hyper-V boxes?