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Add a cluster to Windows Admin Center

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Add a cluster to Windows Admin Center

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- [Instructor] I'm in a Windows 2019 server, and it's running a cluster. A cluster allows us to have two or more servers acting as nodes, I'll click on nodes so you can see the two servers acting as nodes, file server two and three, and they share a common storage device. In this case, we can see under disks, they're sharing what's called a cluster shared volume. Also a disk witness in quorum. And what the disk witness does is in case one of the two servers goes down, it adds a vote to decide who's in charge. So you can't have an even amount in a vote otherwise nobody wins. So the disk witness adds as a tiebreaker. Now, seeing the storage, we can see here that it's five gigabytes and nothing's really in it at this point. And we can see that storage in our File Explorer by going into this PC. It's not a drive letter, it's a folder that's mounted inside the C drive. There's our cluster storage, volume one, cluster…

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