Install And Configure Hyper-V Cluster On Windows Server 2019
Prerequisites
- Windows
2019 Servers, You can Download from the evaluation
center
- Enable
hardware-based virtualization
- Disable
C States (power management)
- Consider
disabling all power management
- Enable
the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) if your system has one.
Pre-Installation
Checklist
Perform
below steps on the Windows Server 2019 Servers prior to installing Hyper-V
- Perform
Windows Full Update
- Update
Device drivers
- Computer
Name is Correct
- Join
to the domain For more security
- Configure
Basic networking
Installing
Hyper-V
Hyper-V
role can be installed in three ways powerShell, dism.exe, and Server Manager,
here we will share the steps for power shell and a dism . We have already
shared the step on the previous BlogPost – Installing Hyper-V On Windows Server 2019, you
can refer this, once complete the installation of HYpe-V on Windows 2019
Servers follow below procedure to Configuring the Cluster.
Open the Server Manager
and Click on Add roles and features and Follow the same method mentioned
on Installing Hyper-V On Windows Server 2019post
and select only from Failover Clustering and include Management
Tools form Popup Option from features on both servers
Reboot the Servers
Once both servers are
rebooted Open Server Manager and Select Failover Clustering from Tools Menu
Failover cluster is Opened and There is no Servers
are available. to Configure the Servers you need to Validate the configuration
first
Click
on Validate Configuration
Click Next
Add
both Servers using Browse Option ( USE FQDN )
Select
the Run all Test and Click Next
You can
view which all configuration is validated on the Tests in the
Confirmation Page and Clik Next to Continue
It will
take some time to complete the testing
You can
view the report from there once everything fine, you can choose create cluster
now using these validated nodes and Click on Finish
Note:-
In case any error there check the details in the report and resolve and run the
test again
Click
Next
Enter
the Cluster Name, Cluster Ip Address, Click Next
In the
confirmation page, you can view the NOdes Names and IP address of the Cluster
and Click Next
There
is an option to add all eligible storage to the cluster, you can add the
storage later if not chosen this.
It will
take a while to create the cluster
Once
the Cluster is created you will get a successful message in the Summary Page
and Click Finish.
For
more details, you can view the report also.
Open
the Failover cluster and Select the Nodes Option to VIew the nodes available
with the cluster
Setup Quorum Disk in Cluster
We need
a shared disk which is accessible across all hyper-v server to configure as
Quorum Witness
Righ
Clik on the Cluster Select More Actions -> Configure Cluster Quorum Setting
Click
Next
Select
option – Select the Quorum witness and Click Next
Select
Configure a disk witness and Clik Next
Note:-
You can use files share / cloud – Azure blob as quorum witness
Select
the disk which is available and Lick Next
Click
Next from Confirmation Page
Click
Finish
Now you
have added the Quorum Witness Disk, Next We need to configured Clustered Shared
Volume to Store the Virtual Machines
Configure Clustered Shared Volume
CSV
Disk should be accessible to all the nodes and should be a valid disk in the
disk management/servers
Open
Fail Over Cluster and Select the Add disk from Storage -> Disk option
Select
the Disk and Clik Ok
And you
can see the New Cluster Disk has been added and it will available for cluster
nodes
Right
Click on the DIsk and From Properties, you may modify the name and setting,
Also you will get the available option for the CSV such as offline ,
Replication, remove and etc
After
Configure Quorum Witness and CSV both are available on the Disks Tab
Now You
can log in to Hyper-V Manager and Configure the CSV Location for storing the
Virtual machine Hard Disk and VM Configuration File .
