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3. If the Introduction box is enabled (and appears), click
Next
.
4. In the Select Installation Type box, select
Role Based or Feature Based.
5. In the Select Destination Server box, select the system and click
Next
.
6. In the Select Server Roles list, click
Next
to present the Features list.
7. Make sure that failover clustering is installed, including the tools. If necessary, run the Add Roles and
Features wizard to install the features dynamically from this user interface.
8. If the cluster nodes need to support I/O as iSCSI targets, expand
File and Storage Services, File
Services
and check for iSCSI Target Server and Server for NFS.
The Server Manager includes a configuration validator under Server Manager> Tools> Failover Cluster
Manager…Validate a Configuration. Refer to the Microsoft documentation for more detailed information.
During creation of the cluster, Windows automatically defines and creates the quorum, a configuration
database that contains metadata required for the operation of the cluster. To create a shared VD for the
quorum, see the instructions in Section
Creating Virtual Drives on the Controller Nodes
.
NOTE: The recommended best practice is to create a small redundant VD for the quorum. A size of
500 MB is adequate for this purpose.
To determine if the cluster is active, run RWC2 and look at the
Dashboard
tab for the controller. The
first of two nodes that boots shows the cluster status as Inactive until the second node is running and the
RWC2 dashboard on the first node has been refreshed.
NOTE: To refresh the RWC2 dashboard, press F5 or select Manage > Refresh on the menu.
The following figure shows, on the left, the controller dashboard with
Inactive
cluster status. The
dashboard on the right side of the figure shows the change to
Active
cluster status.
Figure 12 Controller Dashboard: Inactive and Active Cluster Status
