You are a Systems Engineer at a mid sized company. Your team has been tasked with setting up a file server that is mission critical. Your company has promised a client that this file server will be operational 99.995% of the time. Your team has decided to setup a Microsoft Cluster with the File Server role installed on it in order to facilitate this request.

In this module you covered quite a bit of information on Microsoft Clustering. For this assignment students will select three aspects of Windows Server Clustering and explain how those features facilitate the design choice in the scenario above. For example, you could discuss how the cluster quorum is setup to decide which node a particular role should run on. You might also discuss the merits of shared storage (SAN01 in the lab) as it relates to clustering.

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Certainly implementing a Microsoft Cluster for a missioncritical file server is a prudent choice to ensure high availability The scenario you describe... View the full answer