One of the building blocks of a highly available Windows Server 2016 infrastructure solution is failover clustering. In this chapter, we'll explain how to implement and configure failover clustering and failover settings, virtual machine monitoring, workload migrations, and how to monitor clustered environments.

Failover clustering is a technology that provides you with the ability to implement services in a highly available manner. Many organizations that have business-critical services rely on failover clustering technology in order to achieve better availability and service stability.

In this chapter, you'll learn how to plan and implement a failover cluster service, how to manage and configure services in a failover cluster, and how to make your virtual machines clustered.

We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Planning and implementing failover clustering
• Managing a failover cluster
• Hyper-V failover clusters