All right, what have we learned in this module?
Well, as a trend, I've noticed that the investments Microsoft made to Windows
Server failover clustering have followed a couple of themes.
One is adding more and more functionality for high availability, which
makes all the sense in the world when you think of the purpose of
failover clustering, things like stretch clusters,
cluster sets, NIC teaming,
etc. And then we have investments in increased
performance, RDMA, SMB Direct, so on.
I also want you to remember that you can do most or all of this work with
failover clustering entirely in software using Hyper‑V, and this is
particularly useful to know for your exam prep because you certainly
aren't going to be horsing around with your production clusters at work
while you're preparing to pass the exam, and you also need to understand
how clustering works to pass the exam. So, it's not a chicken and an egg
situation.
As long as you have a Windows 10 or Windows 11 workstation that's got
a decent amount of RAM, 16 gigs at the minimum,
hopefully 32 or more, you can then go to the Microsoft Evaluation Center and
download an evaluation copy of Windows Server 2022, install the Hyper‑V client
bits on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 workstation, and off you go. In the next
lesson, we're going to, yet again, continue our trolley ride with Windows
Server failover clustering.
This time, we're going to dive into Scale‑Out File Server and begin to get
closer to testing failover and verifying failover and failback. Thanks as always for your attention. I look forward to seeing you then.