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.

Documentation Matrix

WARNING: See the safety and regulatory information that shipped with your system. Warranty

information may be included within this document or as a separate document.

NOTE: Any specific statement of support within the DSMS documents supersedes any support

statement within referenced product documentation.