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Creating a Windows Server Failover Cluster with Windows Admin Center

You are working on configuring your Windows Server environment for high availability. As part of the effort, you want to create a failover cluster between your application servers. You want to make sure that the application servers are configured properly so they can be added to a failover cluster. In order to do this, in this hands-on lab, you are going to be installing Windows Admin Center and using it to validate and create a failover cluster.

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Clock icon Intermediate
Duration
Clock icon 1h 0m
Published
Clock icon Jan 26, 2023

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Table of Contents

  1. Challenge

    Configure the Active Directory Domain Services Environment

  2. Challenge

    Install Windows Admin Center

  3. Challenge

    Configure the Failover Cluster

    • Configure a failover cluster, adding server1 and server2 via their fully qualified domain names (FQDNs)
    • Perform cluster validation
    • Create the failover cluster
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