Hyper-converged solution in Windows Server
  • Introduction
  • Intro
    • Introduction
    • Requirements
    • Topology
  • Preparing the servers
    • Server 1: The Domain Controller
    • Prepping the 2 HC servers
    • Server 2: HyperConvergence 1
    • Server 3: HyperConvergence 2
  • Set up the Fail over cluster with storage spaces direct
    • Test the cluster
    • Build the cluster
    • Add a cluster witness
    • Clean the disks
    • Enable storage spaces direct
    • Create cluster-volumes
  • Setup Hyper-V and test
    • The next steps
    • Edit Hyper-V Paths
    • Create a High Available VM
    • Test it
    • Where to go from here
  • Extra
    • Add a 3rd node
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  1. Intro

Topology

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So, taking into account that we'll need:

  • An Active Directory Domain

  • 2-nodes (which means my 2 servers in the cluster) joined to said domain

  • A witness

We can easily create a 3-server setup:

  • 1 server to be DC and witness

  • 2 servers who are our 2 converged nodes.

As you can see in my crude drawing below:

  • My physical Windows 10 host

  • My 3 servers: 2 nodes and my witness being run virtually on my Windows 10 host

  • A virtualised server who's running on HC Node 1, with HC Node 2 actually being in cluster as a failover/hot-standby for computational power,storage and networking.

So let's head over to server number 1: the DC.

Hint: Make sure all integration services are enabled so you can easily copy paste between host and your VMs