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How to add a VM in Hyper-V to a cluster

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How to add a VM in Hyper-V to a cluster

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- [Narrator] Hyper-V is installed on both Hosts One and Two. If we have a virtual machine running on Host Two for instance and Host Two goes down, the virtual machine goes down with it. With Failover Cluster Manager installed and our cluster setup, we can now add high availability by moving our virtual machines into our Cluster Shared Volume, and then adding it into the Failover Cluster Manager. That will allow either node to go down and the virtual machine to continue to run. What we need to do first is to move the storage off the C-Drive and move it on to our Cluster Shared Volume. So with the virtual machine turned off, I'm going to right click and choose Move and we get a wizard that comes up. We're going to choose to move the virtual machine storage, we're not changing the host that the virtual machine is hosted on, we're just moving the storage itself. We're going to move it all to a single location, and now it prompts us for the folder. We're going to choose the Cluster Shared…

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