Hello there.
Welcome to Pluralsight. Welcome to the module, Manage
a Windows Server Failover Cluster.
My name's Tim Warner. In this module, we continue our work
with failover clustering. Here we're going to get more
deeply into clustered roles.
You're going to learn about Scale‑Out File Server. We'll formally
treat the witness. We're going to use an Azure cloud witness. We'll
learn how to configure floating IP addresses for the cluster both
on‑prem and in the cloud. And you'll also understand load balancing
options for failover clustering.
I like this module especially well because we are in fact
going to be working both with local Windows Server, as well
as Windows Server running in Azure.
Let's get started. We're about midway through our Implement and
Manage Windows Server High Availability course. There are five
modules, and all of them support Microsoft exam AZ‑801. First module
is on installing failover clustering.
Next, we started our cluster configuration looking a bit at storage.
Now we're getting more into cluster roles, as I mentioned. That
will continue in the fourth lesson on managing failover clustering
in which we do failover/failback operations. And lastly, we circle
back on Storage Spaces Direct.
This is the preferred storage layer and failover clustering at least from the perspective of the exam.