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Hello there.

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Welcome to Pluralsight. Welcome to the module, Manage

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a Windows Server Failover Cluster.

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My name's Tim Warner. In this module, we continue our work

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with failover clustering. Here we're going to get more

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deeply into clustered roles.

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You're going to learn about Scale‑Out File Server. We'll formally

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treat the witness. We're going to use an Azure cloud witness. We'll

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learn how to configure floating IP addresses for the cluster both

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on‑prem and in the cloud. And you'll also understand load balancing

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options for failover clustering.

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I like this module especially well because we are in fact

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going to be working both with local Windows Server, as well

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as Windows Server running in Azure.

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Let's get started. We're about midway through our Implement and

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Manage Windows Server High Availability course. There are five

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modules, and all of them support Microsoft exam AZ‑801. First module

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is on installing failover clustering.

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Next, we started our cluster configuration looking a bit at storage.

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Now we're getting more into cluster roles, as I mentioned. That

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will continue in the fourth lesson on managing failover clustering

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in which we do failover/failback operations. And lastly, we circle

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back on Storage Spaces Direct.

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This is the preferred storage layer and failover clustering at least from the perspective of the exam.