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Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Deployment Guide

Overview

This document describes how to deploy the Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces (DSMS) solution to use as a Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) or Converged solution. These solutions use Dell PowerEdge servers in a failover cluster and provides shared storage by supporting up to four DSMS is used to configure and manage the storage. Storage Spaces is a software-defined storage (SDS) component in the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system (OS).

This document is intended to support DSMS configurations, which have unique solution SKUs called Solution IDs. These DSMS solution IDs are required when ordering a DSMS configuration, and to access the benefits such as performance and sizing, optimized server and storage components, single-payload updates, and solution-level technical support. If you are in a geographical area outside of the US, the solution IDs are not available at this time. However, you may reference the configuration name instead. For the complete list of configuration solution IDs, see Dell Storage with Microsoft Storage Spaces Configurations and Solution IDs available at Dell Tech Center.
Figure 1. The correct solution ID connects you to all the solution has to offer, including Dell Services and Support. This image shows the correct solution ID that connects you to all the solution has to offer, including Dell Services and Support.

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