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Creating continuously available shares

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Creating continuously available shares

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- [Narrator] Continuously available file shares was new as of Windows server 2012 and of course is also available with Windows server 2016. Before you had continuously available file shares you had to switch file sharing roles between notes due to maintenance or failover. The users saw a timeout period where the data was unavailable. Now we have the option to have the file shares to be continuously available. This is available in both a file server for general use and one for databases using the scale-out option. The general purpose file share is just for plain file sharing. However, if you're going to be hosting virtual machines, sequel server, exchange server or anything with a database involved, then you want to go with the scale-out type of file sharing because it is more efficient for those types of applications. We're in our Windows server 2016 server manager on one of our failover cluster nodes and we see here a file share called test share. If we right click on test share and…

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