You need to deploy a Storage Spaces Direct cluster that uses nested resiliency. What is the minimum number of cluster nodes required?
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Correct answer: 2.
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Nested resiliency in Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) provides fault tolerance within a single node, even if that node has multiple drives fail. This feature is designed for two-node S2D clusters. With nested resiliency, a two-node cluster can tolerate two disk failures in one node, or one disk failure in each node, without data loss. While S2D clusters typically require at least three nodes for traditional resiliency types like three-way mirroring, nested resiliency specifically enables robust fault tolerance with only two nodes. Four nodes (or more) would provide higher levels of traditional resiliency but are not the minimum for nested resiliency.
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