Takes the device back to a business- ready state by: ■ Removing personal files, apps, and settings ■ Reapplying a device’s original settings ■ Setting the region, language, and keyboard to the original values ■ Maintaining the device’s identity connection to Azure AD ■ Maintaining the device’s management connection to […]
Storage Spaces Direct uses local- attached drives on servers to create highly available storage at a minimal cost of traditional storage devices (SAN or NAS). Storage Spaces Direct uses regular hard drives that are connected to a single node of the failover cluster, and these disks can be used as storage for the cluster. To […]
Table 13.3 contains just some of the PowerShell commands that you can use to configure and manage Windows Server 2022 clustering. TABLE 13.3 Windows Server 2022 clustering PowerShell commands Add- ClusterDisk This command allows you to add a new disk to a failover cluster. The disk’s LUN must be visible to all cluster nodes. Add- […]
Microsoft Cloud Witness is a high- availability feature for failover clusters that uses storage in Azure so that clusters will continue to work if there is an onsite outage. It is a type of failover cluster quorum witness that uses Azure. I briefly discussed Cloud Witness earlier in the chapter, but now I want to […]
Many features are included in the Windows Server 2022 release for clustering. It is a rich feature set of high availability with greatly improved flexibility based on the needs of IT organizations. The new features relate to quorum behavior, virtual machine hosting, Active Directory–detached clusters, and a new dashboard. Windows PowerShell Cmdlets for Failover Clusters […]
After you have successfully validated a configuration and the cluster hardware is in a supportable state, you can create a cluster. The process for creating a cluster is straightforward and similar to running the Validate A Configuration Wizard. To create a cluster with two servers, follow the instructions in Exercise 13.4. EXERCISE 13.4 Creating a […]
The Validate A Configuration Wizard, shown in Figure 13.15, is simple to use. You should run it after the Failover Clustering feature has been installed on each of the cluster nodes, and it can be run as many times as you need. FIGURE 13.15 The Validate A Configuration Wizard If you already have a cluster […]
