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All right, what have we learned in this module?

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Well, as a trend, I've noticed that the investments Microsoft made to Windows

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Server failover clustering have followed a couple of themes.

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One is adding more and more functionality for high availability, which

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makes all the sense in the world when you think of the purpose of

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failover clustering, things like stretch clusters,

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cluster sets, NIC teaming,

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etc. And then we have investments in increased

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performance, RDMA, SMB Direct, so on.

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I also want you to remember that you can do most or all of this work with

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failover clustering entirely in software using Hyper‑V, and this is

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particularly useful to know for your exam prep because you certainly

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aren't going to be horsing around with your production clusters at work

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while you're preparing to pass the exam, and you also need to understand

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how clustering works to pass the exam. So, it's not a chicken and an egg

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situation.

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As long as you have a Windows 10 or Windows 11 workstation that's got

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a decent amount of RAM, 16 gigs at the minimum,

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hopefully 32 or more, you can then go to the Microsoft Evaluation Center and

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download an evaluation copy of Windows Server 2022, install the Hyper‑V client

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bits on your Windows 10 or Windows 11 workstation, and off you go. In the next

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lesson, we're going to, yet again, continue our trolley ride with Windows

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Server failover clustering.

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This time, we're going to dive into Scale‑Out File Server and begin to get

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closer to testing failover and verifying failover and failback. Thanks as always for your attention. I look forward to seeing you then.