Continuously Available File Shares
Continuously Available File Shares is a new Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster feature. In earlier Windows Server failover cluster file servers, when file services were transferred between cluster nodes, client connections would be disrupted or completely disconnected. With Windows Server 2012, when clustered file servers are configured with continuous availability, client connections will not be disrupted or disconnected during group transfers between cluster nodes. This functionality is named SMB2 transparent failover. You can find more information about Continuously Available File Shares in Chapter 29, “System-level Fault Tolerance (Clustering / Network Load Balancing).”
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