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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By : ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH
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Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform

By: ZAHIR HUSSAIN SHAH

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V: Deploying Hyper-V Enterprise Server Virtualization Platform
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Introduction
SCVMM 2012 New Features and Enhancements
SCVMM Management Console Configuration Settings
Index

Preparing, creating, and configuring a Hyper-V failover cluster


In this section, we will be covering the preparation, installation, and configuration of Hyper-V high availability and failover step by step with snapshots, wherever they are required to better explain the configuration. Now let's first start with preparing Hyper-V failover cluster nodes.

Preparing Hyper-V failover cluster nodes

For the preparation of Hyper-V failover cluster nodes, we will talk about the three major areas of building a Hyper-V failover cluster. These three areas are as follows:

  • Preparing cluster nodes

  • Preparing cluster networks

  • Preparing cluster disks

Preparing cluster nodes

In this section, we will go through the step-by-step process of installing the Windows Failover Clustering feature and adding the Hyper-V role to the failover cluster nodes.

Let's first start with the installation of the Windows Failover Clustering feature.

Installing the Windows Failover Clustering feature

The following steps are required to install...