Failing over workloads between nodes

Throughout this chapter, we learned about the types of workloads that a failover cluster can host, as well as how best to manage the clusters in general. Let’s continue our learning objectives by discussing how to fail over workloads between cluster nodes using Windows Admin Center:

1. From the Cluster Manager area within Windows Admin Center, select Servers under the Compute section and review the options for the clustered nodes, as shown in Figure 8.13, including the additional options under the ellipses for cluster node management:

Figure 8.13 – Server node management within Cluster Manager

2. Selecting just one of the cluster nodes not only allows us to review the specific details and configuration of the server node but also allows us to visualize what happens when we select Pause to place the cluster node into maintenance, noting that workloads are automatically moved to other nodes in...