The question: To enable or disable CSV balancer in S2D?
Before we continue, I want to clarify the Cluster AutoBalancer and CSV Balancer are separate things.
Cluster Autobalancer is relating to cluster roles, or in this case the VM’s. CSV balancer is about the CSV storage.
Info on each can be found here: Cluster Autobalancer aka VM Load balancing:Â Clustering and High-Availability CSV Balancer, i.e. what we are talking about here:Â Automatic SMB Scale-Out Rebalancing (this is related to SOFS and 2012R2 but gets the info across)
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