08.1 Failover Clustering for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2016 (Step by Step guide)

In this video series I am going to be installing and configuring the new Windows Server 2016. In the eighth video from the series I am going to implement Failover Clustering for Hyper-V Virtual Machines, a great feature that can make your environment highly available. It can significantly help reducing downtime for services running in Virtual Machines.

[@onlycodered]

Thank you so much for this video! I've working on my Server 2016 MCSA and have been trying to wrap my head around all the failover clustering stuff. Your video was the easiest to follow even compared to a paid video series. :)

[@hamidtabatabaei2227]

Very good teaching ability! Many thanks for all your time you have used to make all videos under this series!

[@NLBSolutions]

Thank you for your support, Hamid!

[@saadspl]

Hi, Nick i have seen almost every major topic video you created to counter check on our technique and get various thing to keep for us. Thus i found your video very helpful in terms of detail explanation regarding every topic you made for those who are in the filed IT & Acting as Admin somewhere to cope at their end on a quick way. Overall provided info, clear voice and step you created relevant to topic are quite good. Keep providing more tips & tricks. Thanks

[@safecyclistpd]

You probably know this by now mate but you can extend the life of evaluation copies of Windows Servers, just rearm them for another 180 days, it's a quick command run in elevated cmd mode 'slmgr -rearm' it will say the process has succeeded and reboot, one rebooted, it connects to Windows activation servers and activates itself for another 180dys, on Windows Servers, you can do this 5 times before you will have to re-install a fresh copy, for Windows 10, you can do this 3 times before you have to re-install.
Thanks ever so much for your Videos too, I've used your HyperV failover cluster series to learn a lot about this topic, I'm using HyperV core as my 2 nodes. I'm not sure if it's a bug, I could use cluster manager to create the cluster in my scenario, I had to use powershell.

[@lamnguyentung1426]

Thank you, I love your accent. It's really easy to listen :)

[@ChannelofEverythingace]

I just want to say thank you because all your videos very helpful.

[@yahoohkdavid]

It is really useful for me to studying the mcse 2016, hope make it pass

[@NLBSolutions]

Hi David, hope you did pass.

[@yahoohkdavid]

NLB Solutions thx, but I did fail 2 time,
I dont know how to study actually

[@MarioKamenjak]

I liked the intro.

[@Phantasia.Official]

Great stuff, Thank you!

[@priyanthaherath2488]

nice video very usefully thanks for your effect

[@diaconescurares2290]

Hello
Nice videos and very helpful.
I have a question about: how many phisycal machine have you used for the job?
Thanks

[@tonygaurav]

Thanks, please make some videos on Virtualization.

[@NLBSolutions]

Thank you, Guarav. I plan on creating some more videos on the topic of virtualization - VMware and Hyper-V, so stay tuned!

[@sushantgupta9336]

My 2 node cluster is still working without quorum inspite of failing the other. I mean cluster is working on single node as well without quorum.

[@hussainafghan5289]

thank you so much very useful

[@revoferrari778]

hi Nick, nice video.. i am setting up a new windows clustering environment with virtulizaton and hyper-v, what is your recommendation, how many physical servers, network adapter and so forth i need to setup a window cluster environment. i have a SAN and FC switch avialable. Thank you.

[@enriqueaguilar4361]

very good one!

[@NLBSolutions]

Thank you for the support, Enrique.

[@antoniosimoes5768]

Hi Nick, I'd like to ask you 2 things: how can I configure my cluster with dhcp insted of static ip and where the cluster configurations are stored. Thank you

[@luandt95]

hi, I only have 2 nodes but when installing I need to join the domain to resolve. So, where does AD install? Can I create AD as 1 VM on any one node?

[@Phantasia.Official]

To make Fail-over Clustering highly available, you need any local DNS Server (which is mostly a AD Controller) on a physical machine, to resolve the iSNS requests that support your disks on the iScsi Target Server(s). Otherwise, the Fail-Over Cluster can not start, because the Host Servers (Nodes) and Storage Servers, need to be validated and accounting for starting up in AD/DNS.
If there is no DNS, and AD is down, the cluster with only 2 nodes won't start correctly. It's a known feature (bug) in Fail-over clustering with only 2 Nodes..

[@pachokardana6192]

ако падне сървъра за съхранение на който са скъзи дисковете които ползват нодовете, какво ще стане ?

[@zoltron30]

do we need to create an external switch?

[@dalv086]

slmgr -rearm this is for expired windows 180 days...

[@G_K_S_R]

Everything is A-OK except the frequent "smack" sound coming from his mouth (I hate those sounds)... Huge thanks for the videos anyway.