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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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Challenge
Configure the Active Directory Domain Services Environment
- Install Active Directory Domain Services
- Create the Domain Admin user
- Join the server VMs to the domain
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Challenge
Install Windows Admin Center
- Install Windows Admin Center on the
gatewayserver
- Install Windows Admin Center on the
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Challenge
Configure the Failover Cluster
- Configure a failover cluster, adding
server1andserver2via their fully qualified domain names (FQDNs) - Perform cluster validation
- Create the failover cluster
- Configure a failover cluster, adding
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