Creating and managing Nano Server failover clusters with 5nine Manager
5nine Manager provides you with standard failover cluster operations, allowing you to create, validate, and configure a highly-available Nano Server infrastructure. The cluster best practice analyzer is even integrated into the process so you can ensure the highest uptime possible for your Nano Server virtual machines.
In this section, we will show you how to create and manage a Nano Server failover cluster with 5nine Manager.
Creating a cluster
5nine Manager lets you discover hosts and create a failover cluster. It will allow you to specify nodes, run cluster Validation, provide a client access point, and then create the cluster as shown in Figure 15:
Figure 15. Create cluster wizard
Validating a cluster
Failover cluster validation is an essential task in all deployments as it is required for your cluster to be supported by Microsoft. With 5nine Manager, you can test the health of your cluster during configuration, or afterwards...
