In this recipe, we will discuss how to create clusters in VMM 2016. This is best illustrated through a real-world example that I will refer to.
Suppose, you have four identical servers with local-attached storage—two SSDs and four HDDs on each server, and two other dedicated HDD disks are used for system partitions. How can you make a shared storage from all of this? The right answer is S2D. S2D can group up local disks to one storage pool available for each cluster node. It requires internal disks or direct-attached storage enclosures and does automatic storage caching and tiering configuration depending on the types of drives present in your systems. Fault tolerance and storage efficiency for virtual volumes in a pool are achieved through the different resiliency types such as parity, mirror or mixed. S2D can be considered in two deployment models: hyper-converged and converged.
As we already discussed in Chapter 1, VMM 2016 Architecture...