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Storage replica

We have a file server cluster in one of the sites running on windows 2012 R2. We will be migrating the file server to windows 2016.
We had an incident earlier that the hosting infrastructure that runs all the virtual servers went down. Now the company wants this to be considered and make a solution that in case such incident happens in the future, the users should still be able to access the files from the second site.
We have two sites with good bandwidth. I am thinking of using the new feature in window s 2016 DC i.e the storage replicas. We want an automated switchover if in case infrastructure in any of the sites has an issue, it should be accessible from the other site.
We have file server cluster in both sites. Either one of them goes down it should AUTOMATICALLY fail over to the other site.

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as per your scenario, which is focused on file sharing in disaster, DIstributed File System (DFS) should be more suitable as it provides the same file sharing capability at another site and does need to pay extra license cost for Windows Server Enterprise Edition.

FYI - Storage Replica is only available for Windows Server Enterprise Edition.

Aamer M

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I have datacenter licenses

Lee W, MVP

FYI - Storage Replica is only available for Windows Server Enterprise Edition.

There hasn't been an Enterprise Edition since 2008 R2.

Storage Replica has some pretty high demands, including latency specifications depending on how it's implemented. I would recommend reading over this:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-replica/storage-replica-overview

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