Install guest (virtual) failover cluster

• Please continue to the Building guest (virtual) failover cluster series to learn how to create guest cluster from the virtual machines.

Prerequisites

• Cluster: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
• Two nodes
• Failover Clustering
• Storages
  • Witness disk: One disk on a shared VHD or VHDX virtual disk
  • Cluster disks: One or more disks on a shared VHD or VHDX virtual disk
• Correctly configured Quorum

Create a File Server clustered role

• Install File Server role on all nodes in PowerShell.

Install-WindowsFeature FS-FileServer -IncludeAllSubFeature

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• Or install it using Server Manager.
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• In Failover Cluster Manager assign drive letter to the cluster disk.
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• Failover Cluster Manager – Roles – Configure Role – High Availability Wizard
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• File Server
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• Select File Server for general use.
• If you need Scale-Out File Server (for example for Hyper-V VMs) then you need to activate Cluster Shared Volume (CSV) and select Scale-Out File Server for application data.
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• Give name and IP address to the clustered role.
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    • contfsclu1rfs0
• Select disk.
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• Or multiple disks.
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• If you do not add all disks you may configure another separate File Server role for other disks but there not too many reasons why you should do that.
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    • contfsclu1rfs1
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Create share

• Add File Share
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• SMB Share – Quick
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• Select server and volume.
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• Set Share name.
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    • Library0
• Configure other settings.
  • [x] Enable continuous availability
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• Customize permissions…
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• For example add a group of Virtual Machine Manager Library Users.
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    • AD\contscvmmlib0adminsgroup
• Check results.
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• Access new file share.
  • \\ServerClustereRoleName\ShareName
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      • \\contfsclu1rfs0\Library0
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