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What about Storage Spaces Direct?

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I give you the citation for this image in the lower left

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corner, and, of course, you've always got the Pluralsight

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exercise files to fall back on.

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But as I was saying, when you're using Storage Spaces in the

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context of a Windows Server failover cluster, that failover

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cluster is reliant upon shared storage.

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And so you can create a virtual storage pool that aggregates physical disks

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from some or all of the cluster nodes in your cluster.

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And the way the vocab works, the object model with Storage Spaces,

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is that you create your storage pool,

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which is an aggregation of physical disks, and then from that

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storage pool you start to break out virtual disks.

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And lastly, when you're doing Storage Spaces Direct,

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you can make sure that those virtual disks are replicated to each cluster

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node as VHD or VHDX files, and those cluster shared volumes, as they're

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called, will be on the file system of each node.

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And again,

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this makes that attachment and detachment process much faster when you

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need to move a workload from one primary node to another one because

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that secondary node that's going to take over already has a synchronized

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copy of that virtual disk volume.

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So this comes into play with workloads like Scale‑Out File Server where

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you've got highly available file shares, and that actually, SOFS, can be combined with highly available Hyper‑V virtual machines.