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Keep your failover cluster small and cost-effective by using a File Share Witness instead of a true third node.
Our customer wanted us to show them how to create the most cost-effective Windows failover cluster to run their SQL cluster, but they could easily run a high availability share on it or add Hyper-V on each node and then run the same virtual machine cluster, as most clusters do.
This is ideal for setting up a high availability Windows Failover Cluster in small businesses that don't have the three or more nodes that are typically required for a cluster. Microsoft has actually made setting up a Windows Failover Cluster pretty easy for anyone with moderate technical skills. In this video, we'll show you the issues with Windows Failover Cluster.
0:00 Introduction
0:20 What is a File Share Witness?
1:45 Demonstration of installing a Windows failover cluster
3:33 Explanation of voting in the Windows failover cluster
4:44 How to add a file sharing witness
5:40 Creating a share for a file sharing witness
8:55 Testing high availability with Windows Failover Cluster
10:20 How to change the file share witness in a cluster
12:40 Add Cluster Shared Storage and Hyper-V VMs
13:55 Outro
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