Installing and configuring the Windows Failover Clustering feature

In order to create high availability scenarios, Windows Server 2012 provides the Failover Clustering feature, which allows you to put roles or virtual machines into a high availability solution.

When installed and configured, Failover Clustering uses Failover Cluster Management Tools to bring all necessary cluster components, such as storage, network, roles, and nodes, together into a single console.

Failover Clustering is a Windows feature that creates a group of servers called nodes that are put together in a virtual space. A cluster is formed by nodes, storages, network devices, and the failover cluster itself (which acts as the management software) to bring all these components under just one console. All users and services that use the cluster connect to the virtual name created by Failover Clustering; however, this virtual entity can contain many nodes (up to 64) in the same cluster. In case one of the active nodes fails...