Overview of Windows Server Failover Clustering

Throughout this book, we have learned how to use Hyper-V to host our lab machines and configure Hyper-V to utilize physical machine resources that are mapped to virtual equivalent resources (think the disk, CPU, RAM, and network), thus abstracting the physical machine and hardware from the intended hosted workloads. However, with this single-host approach, Hyper-V does not provide any additional resilience or availability for protecting workloads – this is where WSFC delivers and excels.

Let’s continue learning more about WSFC by introducing the services provided by this important collection of components.

What is WSFC?

WSFC is a cooperative group of independent computers that work together to enable the high availability of clustered roles to deliver applications and services called clustered roles, provide distributed configuration, and coordinated failover orchestration, and allow centralized resource management...