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combine the servers and shared storage at these two sites into a single stretched cluster by<br />

asymmetrically replicating storage from one site to the other.<br />

Figure 2-53: Typical architecture used for implementing stretch cluster replication<br />

This configuration makes a failover cluster tolerant not just of node failures, but entire site failures.<br />

When a single node in a site fails, another node in that site becomes the new source of replication.<br />

When all nodes in a site fail, a node in the other site becomes the source of replication. All of this<br />

occurs automatically, just like a normal nonstretched cluster. Stretch clustering requires a minimum of<br />

two nodes, and the cluster can contain up to 64 nodes.<br />

In Windows Server 2016, the two cluster roles recommended for replication are Hyper-V and General<br />

Use File Server. You should avoid configuring SOFS as a stretch cluster because Windows Server<br />

failover clusters are not inherently site aware, and applications will end up connecting to nodes in<br />

both sites and then redirecting back to the owning node where I/O writes occur. This potentially can<br />

lead to poor application performance. Microsoft supports the use of VM guest clusters in the for<br />

evaluation purposes only.<br />

You can manage this cluster with the Failover Cluster Manager (cluadmin.msc) through a simple<br />

wizard-driven interface. To create a stretched cluster, simply create a CSV and configure the General<br />

Use File Server role or a Hyper-V VM role. Right-click the source storage (shown in Figure 2-54 as<br />

Cluster Disk 3 in the cluster named np-sr-cluster.com), click Replication, and then, on the shortcut<br />

menu that appears, click Enable.<br />

Figure 2-54: Turning on disk replication in Failover Cluster Manager<br />

50 CHAPTER 2 | Software-defined datacenter

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