Build the cluster

The original Microsoft guide was a bit unclear in my opinion and so was the new-cluster cmdlet page. So anyway this is what I learned from this:

• The "name" is a netbios name, so should be less than 15 characters long

• The staticaddress is the adress you will give to the cluster.

So, execute this cmdlet.

New-Cluster –Name MyFirstCluster –Node HC1,HC2 –NoStorage -StaticAddress 192.168.1.15

You might get a warning:

All in all, if you check the logs and the clusterwitness is the cause of the error, there shouldn't be any concern:

Our next step will be to configure the cluster witness.

Also, when in doubt, just verify!