Can we build a Hyper V failover cluster without a SAN or other shared storage

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I have a question about Hyper-V Failover Cluster. I have 2 server Hyper-V and want to use a failover cluster. As far as I know, I need a SAN server for that, so do we need it in here?

Best Answer

Windows Failover Clustering (which is what Hyper-V uses for clustering) requires shared storage of some sort.

Further to Massimo's answer, and if I'm reading this page right, I don't think you can use exclusively SMB shares for a failover cluster.

You'd still need some shared disks (SAS, iSCSI, FC) for the cluster portion, but you can store the Hyper-V VM files on SMB shares.

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