Setting up a Windows failover cluster

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Introduction

Setting up a Windows cluster requires at least three virtual machines and two networks.

These instructions assume KVM and libvirt are used. Windows version is Server 2019.


				+-------------+
				| SMB  Client |
				+-------------+
				       |
				192.168.150.201
				       |
	+---------------------------------------------------------------+
	|			Clients network				|
	+---------------------------------------------------------------+
		|                      |                       |
	 192.168.150.10		192.168.150.21		192.168.150.22
		|                      |                       |
	+---------------+       +------------+          +------------+
	|   AD + iSCSI  |       |   Node 1   |          |   Node 2   |
	| target server |       +------------+          +------------+
	+---------------+              |                       |
                                       |                       |
                                192.168.160.21          192.168.160.22
                                       |                       |
	+---------------------------------------------------------------+
	|		        Cluster network                         |
	+---------------------------------------------------------------+

VM name Hostname IP addresses
win2k19-fover-ad fover-ad 192.168.150.10
win2k19-fover-n1 fover-n1 192.168.150.21 192.168.160.21
win2k19-fover-n2 fover-ad 192.168.150.22 192.168.160.22

Setup libvirt networks

The first step is to create the public and private networks in libvirt. Save the following fragment to a file named cluster-public.xml:

<network>
  <name>cluster-public</name>
  <forward mode='nat'>
    <nat>
      <port start='1024' end='65535'/>
    </nat>
  </forward>
  <domain name='cluster-public'/>
  <dns>
    <forwarder domain='fover.net' addr='192.168.150.10'/>
  </dns>
  <ip address='192.168.150.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
    <dhcp>
      <range start='192.168.150.200' end='192.168.150.250'/>
    </dhcp>
  </ip>
</network>

Save the following fragment to cluster-private.xml:

<network>
  <name>cluster-private</name>
  <domain name='fover.net'/>
  <dns>
    <forwarder domain='fover.net' addr='192.168.160.10'/>
  </dns>
  <ip address='192.168.160.1' netmask='255.255.255.0'>
    <dhcp>
      <range start='192.168.160.200' end='192.168.160.250'/>
    </dhcp>
  </ip>
</network>

Now define and start the networks:

# virsh net-define cluster-public.xml
# virsh net-define cluster-private.xml
# virsh net-start cluster-public
# virsh net-start cluster-private

Setup AD virtual machine

After installing the operating system, set the host name and IP addresses. It is useful to rename the network adapters to know to which network are connected.

Public Private
IP Address 192.168.150.10 192.168.160.10
Netmask 255.255.255.0 255.255.255.0
Gateway 192.168.150.1
DNS 1 192.168.150.1
DNS 2

Proceed to install the Active Directory Domain Services and iSCSI target server roles:

Setting up a Windows failover cluster ad install roles.png

Once roles are installed, provision the Active Directory domain following the Wizard:

Setting up a Windows failover cluster ad domain provision.png