I'll select mem2, and we'll shift that over, and we could do the same
thing with some other roles like this. File Server over here, I'll do
the same thing. But we can manually balance the cluster, and we can
review cluster events as we normally do. Now as far as the Windows Admin
Center stuff that I was talking about, actually we're driving by
cluster‑aware updating, it looks like the run succeeded, so let's do a
Generate report.
The reason I wanted to do this is not to view the reports
in the GUI, but I like a deliverable.
I'll call this cau‑report. It looks like it's an HTML file.
That's not bad, just a self‑contained static HTML file that
you can share or whatever.
So let's check out that port 6516 on my server.
And what I want you to see here is that we've got that dedicated Cluster
Manager view. And if you don't have a connection to your cluster,
you click Add. Type the DNS name of your cluster. You might need to put
in credentials, and then you've got a persistent connection through the
browser in WAC. So let's take a look at what we can do in the cluster
manager WAC. While this is loading,
it takes a little while. It looks like we can get to our highly available VMs.
We can look at our nodes. We can look at our storage subsystem. If we're doing
software‑defined networking with multiple switches,
we can get to that layer.
So this is going to presume that through WAC, we can get to those
cluster hosts. Now, some warts with WAC are occasional bugs you just
saw probably up in the notification area.
It looks like it kind of bombed.
Let me try that again.
It's kind of annoying when that happens.
It was working just fine, of course, before I started this demo,
but sometimes you'll find it slow.
And what's especially disappointing is that I have just updated this
extension too, so I thought you can do that under Settings. Well,
let me see if I try to browse directly to a blade within Cluster
Manager that's better. Hopefully, fingers crossed.
So this view is going to show our highly available VMs. And so another
feature/wart of WAC, and I've mentioned this before, is that your surfaced‑only
selected things to do or selected administration commands,
we can select the VM. We can connect to it.
We can, in fact, move it to another node.
So, in a pinch, if you were called into action,
you could maybe VPN into Corpnet,
get your WAC console up and running that way without having to get a full
desktop where you have your PowerShell and you have your Microsoft
Management Console. And as I had mentioned before,
there's lots of integration with Azure, and Azure works great in a
hybrid cloud. Ideally, we would have our cluster hosts loaded up with
Azure Arc extension or the connected machine agent, as it's formally
called, and this makes it very easy to surface diagnostics and metrics
data in Azure Monitor, deliver updates centrally from the cloud
diagnostics, etc, etc.
So anyway,
that's kind of a nonstarter with Windows Admin Center. Let me clean up the desktop, and we'll call this demo done.