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Configure cluster storage

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Configure cluster storage

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- In previous videos we created a Failover Cluster in Windows server 2016 and then we added the nodes and we added the networking. Now, we're on to storage. We need to add storage that's available to both servers in order for the servers to become redundant. That means you'll have to have a SAN (storage area network) or another Windows server with the iSCSI target roll installed on it and you need to put it in cluster mode so that both servers can access the data at the same time without crashing that storage. Now, I've already done this using an IBM storage manager, but you may be able to choose any option you want for storage that allows this clustered service. And once you have that storage available, you just have to go into computer management in server manager tools and choose computer management. Make sure you give that storage a drive letter on each side. So we see disk three and disk four and disk five. Now if we open this up on our other node we'll see the exact same thing…

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