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Hello, and welcome to Pluralsight. Welcome to this module,

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Configure a Windows Server Failover Cluster.

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My name's Tim Warner. In this module, we're picking up where we left off in the

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previous module in which we understood Windows Server failover clustering and

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we deployed a cluster with no shared storage yet.

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Today, we're going to modify quorum options, we'll configure network

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adapters for clustering, this is an optimization step,

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we'll understand common cluster workload options, and well understand

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cluster sets. The Implement and Manage Windows Server High Availability

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course consists of five interrelated modules,

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all of which correspond to exam AZ‑801. First module was on

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implementing failover clusters. We're now configuring. We then will

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manage. That actually spans two modules. And then we finish with

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Storage Spaces Direct in particular.

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This course is pretty much all about failover clustering as a way to provide

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high availability for your Windows Server‑based workloads.

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Yes,

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it's a big subject in general, but it's also a big focus of exam AZ‑801. As I

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mentioned in the previous module, if you go into AZ‑801 without a very solid

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understanding of Windows Server failover clustering, I don't think you'll pass

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the exam, so this is important stuff. Let's proceed.