How to Configure Failover Cluster in Windows Server 2019 - Step by Step

This video explains how to configure Failover Cluster in Windows Server 2019 Step by Step.

Find the step by step procedure here

These are the steps
✅ Set up the Network Environment
✅ Set up the iSCSI Cluster Disks
✅ Configure Failover Clustering Role
✅ Create the Failover Cluster
✅ Add Disks to the Cluster

How to setup up domain network here:

How to setup iSCSI disks here:

[chuksnwume]

Thank you for nailing it for me, excellent job!

[umuts]

As a newbie system administrator I must say it's one of the best tutorials I've ever watched, also very clear instructions on documentations. Subscribed :)

[steveabba]

Great job with both presentation and delivery. WELL DONE!!!

[bikashranjanswain]

Great! Fully neat and clean steps! All doubt got cleared, Thanks a Lot From INDIA

[pradhandigitals]

fantastic illustration yet on the topic I have ever learnt.

[frankcadena]

I thought the storage disks were located on Node 3. The disks added were from Node 2.

[detlefbiedermann]

Many thanks for the tutorial. I did not recognize when you have added the quorum disc to the cluster. ??

[melenrdr]

Good video. Now how would you fix a witness disk that has become corrupted. Knowing you cannot do a disk scan/file system check while the Disk is in use by the cluster.

[ogen]

Hello, thank you for your video, what minimum license do you need to realise that setup? Standard or Datacenter? Thx!

[oluwaseunakinwunmi]

This well explained... Thank you... I have question.. please how do one reclaim space on the shared disk back to the storage device. I have pending issue where after files are being deleted from the file cluster drive, the space is not reflecting on the storage. Thank

[Mrshahinsha]

Getting error "The Node cannot be contacted. Ensure that node is powered on and is connected to network"
the both node is online and its pinging too T
ell me the solution please

[pimenz]

Hi, thank you for the detailed explanation! One question - how do you make the storage node3 (storage node) fault tolerant? Am I right in undestanding that if node 3 (storage node) fails then the whole cluster fails as it has no shared storage?

[ghulamhaidermalik]

Every thing is described very efficiently but how to configure the client side with wsfc ?

[MrPrinceiq]

thanks for this explaining...for the iscsi i have some quest. if you don't mind
1-does using server instead of storage device is good ? no problem with it ?
2-could i first convert the physcial disk to gpt then spanning them to make for example one partition of 10TB ssd and then i start use it in the iscsi ?
3- if the 1 of ssd down i think all storage will down so how to make a mirror to these ssd disk to insure the safety
thanks again

[rgulamhussein]

Thank you, you explain things very clearly.
Can I ask you how you set up your lab environment? Looks like you are using virtual box. Seems like a great setup for testing. How much processing power does the host computer require?

[pskizyj]

Hi Mr Kindson, I'm trying to create cluster but I'm having error while naming the cluster : "unable to determine if the computer <clustername> exists in the domain <domain_name.local> . The username or password is incorrect.

[packista]

Hello, can you help me for this message and how to resolved this, please : " there was an error cleaning up the cluster nodes.Use Clear-ClusterNode to manually clean up the nodes." Please help me to resolved this error

[abdulkaderssjemal]

HI,
I Have followed your tutorial but I have a problem when I try to validate the clusters .Cluster one can not find cluster two even though they are on the same domain and can ping each other..I get a mersage "the node cannot be contacted ensure that the node is powered on" even when the node is on.Any solution to this problem?

[renbinkoh]

Hi, i want to check if it's workgroup without domain can i still create the cluster? Anythings to take note.

[karthik.]

Hi kindson,
have to give same configuration as node 2 also??