Hello there
I'm running a small POC for one of my customers with 2 Windows Server 2016.
The main idea is to provide an active-passive File Server Cluster.
The servers are nodes in a stretched Failover Cluster. Both are located at different sites.
Storage Replica is activated and is running fine.
File Server Role is activated and the SR Disks are assigned to it.
Failover works as expected. So far so good. I love the new Storage Replica Feature.
I would like to run this cluster as a normal File Server.
The users are used to the Windows Search feature. On the old File server, they had running the standard Windows Search indexing Service. Worked pretty good for the 3TB of Data.
I tried to configure Windows Search. But as you might know, Windows Search is not allowed in a Windows Failover Cluster. If you try to start a Windows Failover Cluster Node with this service running, the service will be set to disable. I have no clue how an indexing software should work with SR as the disks are only present to one server node (Source) only.
Now my Question: Is there a way to provide the same windows search functionality for the user without windows search indexing service? Do I have to use a third party software? What are you guys using?
I'm looking forward to hear about your experiences.
Thx for your time
Greetings
Martin