This article is not part of the Building Microsoft System Center Cloud series but we will use the new cluster to host our VMs in the cloud series.

Active Directory

• If you do not have functional AD then please continue to the series where I explained how to install and configure virtual Domain Controllers on the Hyper-V hosts.
• When your DCs are are up and running then add your Hyper-V hosts to the domain and you can continue with implementation of the Failover Clustering.

Add hosts to the domain

• Network is configured so we can now add the nodes into domain.
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Failover Clustering feature

• In the case you did not install Failover Clustering feature do it please:

Add-WindowsFeature Failover-Clustering -IncludeManagementTools

Create Cluster Wizard

• Now we can continue as usually.
• Create Cluster Wizard
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• Run validation.
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• Set name and IP address.
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• I did not get my LUNs from the storage team yet so the storage will not be configured at this point.
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