Question about adding an Extra Node to SOFS cluster

Hi, I have a fully functioning SOFS cluster, with two nodes, it uses SAN FC storage, Not SAS JBODS. its running about 100VM's in production at the moment.
Both my nodes currently sit on one blade chassis, but for resiliency, I want to add another node from a blade chassis in our secondary onsite smaller DC.
I've done plenty of cluster node upgrades before on SQL and Hyper-V , but never with a SOFS cluster.
I have the third node fully prepaired, it can see the Disks the FC Luns, on the SAN (using powerpath, disk manager) and all the roles are installed.
so in theory I can just add this node in the cluster manager and it should all be good, my question is has anyone else done this, and is there anything else I should be aware of, and what's the best way to check the new node will function , and be able
to migrate the File role over without issues. I know I can run a validation when adding the node, I presume this is the best option ?
cannot find much information on the web about expanding a SOFS cluster.
any advice or information would be greatfully received !!
cheers
Mark

Hi Mark,
Sorry for the delay in reply.
As you said there is no much information which related to add a node to a SOFS cluster.
The only ones I could find is related to System Center (VMM):
How to Add a Node to a Scale-Out File Server in VMM
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn466530.aspx
However adding a node to SOFS cluster should be simple as you just prepared. You can have a try and see the result.
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