About FSA clustering

In an environment where Windows file servers are grouped in a cluster, you can make the FSA services that are running on them highly available. Then, if the cluster software detects the failure of the FSA services on one node, it can quickly restart the services on another node in the cluster - a process that is commonly known as "failover".

For example, Figure: Sample FSA cluster configuration shows an environment in which three file servers are clustered together.

All the servers have a shared disk configured; you can make the FSA services highly available only when there is a shared disk resource. If the FSA services on one node in the cluster fail, they fail over automatically to another node in the cluster. This failover results in only a momentary pause in service.

Figure: Sample FSA cluster configuration

Sample FSA cluster configuration