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Best practices for specific roles, features, and integrations

28 Dell EMC SC Series: Microsoft Windows Server Best Practices | 680-042-007

4 Best practices for specific roles, features, and integrations

This section covers best practices for specific Windows Server roles, features, and integrations as they relate

to SC Series storage.

For more information on other roles and features that are not related to storage, see the

Microsoft Windows IT

Pro Center.

4.1 Failover Clustering

Window Server Failover Clustering provides the capability to tie multiple servers together with shared storage

to offer high availability and scalability for business-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange, Hyper-

, Microsoft SQL Server, and File Server. Clustering is designed to maintain data integrity and provide

failover support. Windows Server 2016 and newer Failover Clustering can scale up 64 nodes in a single

cluster.

Windows Server Failover Clustering feature

SC Series supports Microsoft server clusters. There is no direct integration between SC Series cluster

support and Microsoft Failover Clustering (or Hyper-V), but it is still a best practice to use similar naming.

When creating a Windows Server Failover Cluster, also create a matching cluster server object on SC Series

using the DSM client.