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Introduction to failover clustering

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Introduction to failover clustering

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- [Instructor] In the next section of the course, I'm going to be talking about failover clustering and the storage that it depends on, and I'll walk you through the process of setting up a storage server and building a failover cluster. Before I do, though, there's a few things that you need to know about failover clustering. Failover clustering is natively supported by Windows Server. It's implemented by way of the failover clustering feature. And again, I'll show you how to install that a little bit later on. Now, failover clustering can be used for a number of different purposes, but for the purposes of this course, we're going to use failover clustering as a way of making your Hyper-V virtual machines highly available. Now, it's worth noting that failover clustering does not guarantee zero downtime for your Hyper-V virtual machines. So, what happens is that if a Hyper-V host fails, then the virtual machines that are running on that host are going to drop offline for a period of…

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