I am trying to configure my storage server(only 1 node for now, more to come)for SMB shares so that my separate Hyper-V nodes can use the storage server disks for shared storage.
I decided to go the SMB 3.0 route instead of iSCSI.
So I googled a bit and found how to create an SMB share. I was interested in the "enable continuous availability" option but found that that option is missing on a non-clustered file server.
Then I installed the failover clustering role and added that single storage server to the cluster. However, when I go to add disks or storage, it says there is no suitable disks to add to the cluster...
The two main volumes I have are RAID volumes that are formatted, initialized, and have drive letters. I saw them perfectly fine in the SMB share wizard before I added the server to its own cluster but now I don't. Do I have to create iSCSI volumes and then create them as SMB shares? That seems to defeat the entire purpose of what I'm doing...(layering local storage on the storage server as iSCSI so that the cluster can see the disks for creation as SMB shares...?)
I'm really confused as most tutorials or outlines don't fully explain everything. Any insight would be helpful.
edit: When I try to create iSCSI virtual disks neither my server shows in the list nor do any of my disks show up for creation. I'm really lost here.
edit: For clarification I configured the failover "file server" role as "Scale-Out File Server" so I could use it for Hyper-V.