Using nested resiliency
If you've done a quick search for the phrase nested resiliency, you may have already discovered that this is not a Hyper-V feature, but rather a Windows Storage Spaces feature. To be frank, this recipe could also have been in Chapter 11, File Services and Data Control. However, here we are in Chapter 13, Working with Hyper-V, so we are very clearly not in that chapter. So, why are we here? Well, Hyper-V has had a variety of methods of redundancy over the years. It's an issue every company that uses virtualization has to solve at one point or another – what do we do when we've outgrown a single Hyper-V Server? How do we protect against hardware failures that would take our company offline if we lost our server? The same questions can also be asked of a file server: what if we outgrow one file server? How do we protect our file server from hardware failures?
Windows Server 2019 introduces a brand-new feature called nested resiliency that...