What feature provides a distributed namespace for shared access storage across all nodes in a failover cluster?

What feature provides a distributed namespace for shared access storage across all nodes in a failover cluster?

• A. Cluster Shared Volume
• B. Cluster Distributed Namespace
• C. Cluster Shared Namespace
• D. Cluster Distributed Volume

Answer: (A)

Cluster Shared Volumes provide a single, distributed storage namespace that all cluster nodes can access simultaneously. It presents the same storage to every node in the failover cluster, coordinated by the CSV filesystem driver so multiple machines can read and write to the volume at the same time. This setup enables seamless movement of workloads (like virtual machines) between nodes without moving the storage itself and supports high availability. The other terms don’t fit as the primary mechanism for shared storage across all cluster nodes. DFS Namespaces offer a distributed namespace for network shares but operate at the file-share level rather than providing a shared storage volume across a cluster. So the feature that delivers the distributed shared storage across all nodes is Cluster Shared Volumes.

Cluster Shared Volumes provide a single, distributed storage namespace that all cluster nodes can access simultaneously. It presents the same storage to every node in the failover cluster, coordinated by the CSV filesystem driver so multiple machines can read and write to the volume at the same time. This setup enables seamless movement of workloads (like virtual machines) between nodes without moving the storage itself and supports high availability.

The other terms don’t fit as the primary mechanism for shared storage across all cluster nodes. DFS Namespaces offer a distributed namespace for network shares but operate at the file-share level rather than providing a shared storage volume across a cluster. So the feature that delivers the distributed shared storage across all nodes is Cluster Shared Volumes.