You are employed as a senior network administrator at ABC.com.
ABC.com has an Active Directory domain named ABC.com.
All servers on the ABC.com network have Windows Server 2012 R2 installed.
ABC.com has two servers,named SERVER1 and SERVER2 which are configured in a two-node failover cluster.
Server1 includes a folder,named ABCAppData,which is configured as a Distributed File System (DFS) name space folder target.
After configuring another two nodes in the failover cluster, you are instructed to make sure that access to ABC AppData is highly available.
You also have to make sure that application data is replicated to ABCAppData via DFS replication.
Which following actions should you take ?
A.
You should consider configuring a scale-out File Server
B.
You should consider configuring the replication settings for the cluster
C.
You should consider configuring a file server for general use
D.
You should consider configuring the Quorum settings
Explanation:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831349.aspx
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2013/12/05/to-scale-out-or-not-to-scale-out-that-is-the-question/
I’d go here for answer C.
One of the reasons is, we are instruceted to:
“You also have to make sure that application data is replicated to ABCAppData via DFS replication.”
As seen from the above link, DFS replication for SOFS requires NTFS permission on file management – this is not the case for General Use File Server Cluster.
Any comments/suggestions?
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Agreed – C is most suitable.
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I also agree that C is the correct answer. Another reason why is that Scale Out File Servers do not support DFS Replication which the question states thats what form of replication must occur.
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Like the way they have highlighted that SOFS supports DFS Namespace, but the line below is the important bit it does not support DFS Replication. Its C
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All the answers seem wrong to me, since you do not need Failover Clustering for DFS replication of Namespace or share or high availability.
If I had to pick an answer, I would go with C (which is referencing a cluster role).
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