Stopped at my local Best Buy the other day. Needed an SSD that was locked behind glass. After attempting to get help for a half hour I ordered one on eBay from the parking lot and drove home. I’ve honestly tried to support brick and mortar where I can but I give up.

Looks like Gluster also requires 3 servers.

My understanding is that allows one server to present storage from multiple ‘back end’ servers, thus still being a single point of failure, right?

Maybe, it could be separate shares on separate servers presented as a single ‘host’ by a Windows cluster, this would be more storage efficient than replication and the only single point of failure would be any given back end server that would only affect 1-2 shared folders rather than all of them, which might be acceptable. Or I could be way the hell off with my understanding of DFS…

Edit: Did a bit more research, it seems DFS does do a redundant namespace that can handle failover. That might actually be exactly what I need. Thanks!

Automatic failover, basically should a VM lock up in a way that monitoring/HA failover isn’t triggered can another VM be picking up the slack.

I understand that, I’ve tried both domain=CompanyWork and domain=CompanyWork.internal in my cred file and directly in fstab both result in the permission error when mounting the TrueNAS share but work just fine when mounting a share provided by Windows Server.

I’m assuming the domain=ip should be the IP address of the AD server right? That’s what I entered and still no luck. Same permission denied error as my past attempts.

To be fair, if someone made a blowjob machine that required an OS, it would probably be Linux. Just sayin.