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Building a Hyper-V Failover Cluster on Server Core

Building a Failover Cluster usually requires expensive SANs and dedicated hardware. This guide documents how to achieve High Availability (HA) using two Dell OptiPlex nodes (running Windows Server Core) and a QNAP NAS for shared… 

Creating your virtual machine

On the right hand side, click “New” -> “Virtual machine..” In the following wizard give the machine a name, set the RAM, and configure this settings for your needs.

Configuring Hyper-V

To set the network for our Hyper-V server we quickly configure a virtual Switch. We set the connection type to “External”. To match the connection type your needs, here are the three connection types of… 

Install Hyper-V

Regardless of the Hyper-V features you want to use, you’ll need: You can also open an administrative command prompt or Terminal and run: Then, you can scroll down to the Hyper-V Requirements section for details.…