A customer requires a solution that will provide site-level and local failover recovery with support for SMB 3.0. Which solution accomplishes this requirement?

A 2-node switchless cluster provides local HA failover between two nodes in the same site but has no mechanism for site-level disaster recovery to a secondary location.

Fabric MetroCluster connects two geographically separated sites through redundant FC switches, enabling synchronous data mirroring and automated site-level failover over distances up to 300 km. It integrates with ONTAP's CIFS server to support SMB 3.0 continuously available shares, which allow Windows clients to reconnect transparently after a node or site failover without losing open file handles, satisfying both the site-level and SMB 3.0 requirements.

Stretch MetroCluster provides site-level failover but relies on direct-attach or short-distance dark fiber connections and is limited in geographic reach compared to Fabric MetroCluster, and it does not fully support SMB 3.0 continuously available shares across a site switchover in the same manner.

An 8-node cluster scales performance and capacity within a single site but provides no built-in site-level disaster recovery, as all nodes remain in the same failure domain.