Managing failover clusters using Windows Admin Center
Sure, we now know how to create a WSFC using Windows Admin Center. However, we can also use Windows Admin Center to manage existing failover clusters by simply adding them as known cluster resources (this also includes hyper-converged clusters such as Azure Stack HCI).
Now that the cluster has been added, the cluster management tools from Windows Admin Center allow us to manage the following (as part of an ever-growing list):
- Dashboard, which displays the current cluster status and any alerts at a high level
- Compute, which covers any hosts, virtual machines, or containers in the cluster while providing the ability to pause nodes, simulate a failure, validate the cluster, remove the cluster, and create and review validation reports for the following cluster workloads:
- Virtual machines
- Servers
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Storage, which provides the management features of any attached or local storage, the presented volumes...