Clustered file servers can give SMB 3 shares this property so that clients keep going uninterrupted when the share fails over between nodes.
Also called SMB Transparent Failover.
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Terms in this definition
- SMB
Protocol for Windows file shares, used by Azure Files and supporting authentication based on identity.
- property
In VCF Operations, an attribute describing how an object is configured, such as its vCPU count. Unlike a metric, it captures state rather than performance over time, and it can feed symptom definitions, views, dashboards and reports.
- Share
In OpenSharing, the container you fill with tables, views, volumes, models and notebooks for recipients. You need
CREATE SHAREon the metastore to make one; add a schema and all its assets, including later ones, go with history. - OVER
Gives a T-SQL window function its window: PARTITION BY, ORDER BY and, if wanted, a ROWS or RANGE frame. Rankings and running totals can then be worked out while every row is kept.
Related terms
- vSphere Fault Tolerance
Continuous availability for a VM: a matching Secondary VM on a different host is kept in step with the Primary and takes over immediately if it fails. Unlike vSphere HA, nothing has to restart.
- witness node
Sits at a third location when VCF Operations runs with Continuous Availability, and decides which of the two fault domains remains online if they lose contact with each other.