Windows Server 2016 – Disk and Share quorum members (Failover Clustering)

Let’s begin by saying and focus that computer clusters (Windows-based) require 3 or more voting member systems to be stable. A failover cluster is a group of independent servers which work collaboratively to ensure high availability and scalability for workloads such as File Server, Exchange, SQL, and Virtual Machines. Read More …

Windows Server 2016 – Create and Enable Clustered Shared Volumes (CSV)

CSV (Cluster Shared Volumes) is a feature in Windows Server family in which shared disks are concurrently accessible to all nodes within a failover cluster. The feature was first introduced in Windows Server 2008 R2 as a way to simplify storage with clustered Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs), but this is not limited to Hyper-V applications. Read More …