Your environment has an AD DS domain with two Windows Server Failover Clusters: Cluster1 (hosts Hyper‑V virtual machines) and Cluster2 (no high‑availability roles). You will create a Storage Spaces Direct cluster on Cluster2 to hold the virtual machine disk files for Cluster1. Which role(s) should be configured on Cluster2?

The correct roles are File Server and Hyper-V Replica Broker. A File Server role is necessary because Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) clusters typically provide storage via Scale-Out File Server (SOFS) for Hyper-V. This allows Cluster1 to access the virtual machine disk files (VHD/VHDX) over the network using SMB 3.0, which is a key requirement for S2D with Hyper-V. The Hyper-V Replica Broker role is needed if you plan to use Hyper-V Replica for disaster recovery of the virtual machines hosted on Cluster1. While not directly related to the storage of the VHDX files, it's a common and important role to consider when designing a Hyper-V environment, especially when using a separate storage cluster. The Virtual Machine role is incorrect because Cluster2 is intended to be a storage cluster, not a compute cluster for running virtual machines. The Hyper-V role would be on Cluster1. The iSCSI Target Server role is incorrect because Storage Spaces Direct primarily uses SMB 3.0 for file shares to Hyper-V clusters, not iSCSI targets. While iSCSI is a block-level protocol, it's not the native or recommended method for connecting Hyper-V to S2D.