Configuring High Availability

In this section, we will discuss how to configure HA in a cluster and the other advanced parameters related to HA.

As shown in the preceding examples, HA is not enabled for this cluster. To enable the cluster, we will again make use of the Set-Cluster cmdlet. In the following example, HA in the cluster has been enabled:

Next, we will enable the HAAdmissionControl property. Let's first check whether HAAdmissionControl is enabled or not:

PS C:\> Get-Cluster "Lab Cluster" | Select -Property HAEnabled,HAAdmissionControlEnabled

HAEnabled HAAdmissionControlEnabled
--------- -------------------------
     True                     False

To enable this property, we will use the Set-Cluster cmdlet. The process of enabling this parameter is shown in the following example:

Next, we will set HAFailoverLevel. To do this, we will set the HAFailoverLevel property of the cluster. In the following example, we have changed the failover level to 2 (the default value is 1):

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