Preparing, creating, and configuring a Hyper-V failover cluster

In this section, we will be covering the preparation, installation, and configuration of Hyper-V high availability and failover step by step with snapshots, wherever they are required to better explain the configuration. Now let's first start with preparing Hyper-V failover cluster nodes.

Preparing Hyper-V failover cluster nodes

For the preparation of Hyper-V failover cluster nodes, we will talk about the three major areas of building a Hyper-V failover cluster. These three areas are as follows:

  • Preparing cluster nodes
  • Preparing cluster networks
  • Preparing cluster disks

Preparing cluster nodes

In this section, we will go through the step-by-step process of installing the Windows Failover ...

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