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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… 

Install Windows Server 2025

Like in every installation of an OS you have to choose the language and the time format first. Choose your keyboard layout. Toggle the checkbox “i agree everything will be deleted…” and click Next. Choose… 

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.…