Installing your cluster management software, Microsoft failover cluster management console – Dell AX4-5 User Manual

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Installing Your Cluster Management Software

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Installing Your Cluster Management
Software

This section provides information on configuring and administering your
cluster using Microsoft

®

Failover Cluster Management console.

Microsoft Failover Cluster Management Console

Failover Cluster Management console is Microsoft's tool for configuring and
administering a cluster. The following sections describe the procedures to run
Failover Cluster Management console locally on a cluster node and to install
the tool on a remote console. To launch the Failover Cluster Management
console, click Start

Programs

Administrative Tools

Failover Cluster

Management

Running Failover Cluster Management on a Remote Console

You can administer and monitor the Cluster Service remotely by installing the
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) and Failover Clustering feature
on a remote console (or management station) running the Microsoft
Windows

®

operating system.

The RSAT tool for Failover Clustering includes the Failover Cluster Manager
console and the cluster.exe command line tool.

To install Remote Server Administration Tools package on a remote console:

1 On a system running any Windows operating system that you want to

configure as the remote console:

Click Start

→ Server Manager→ Features→ Add Features.

2 Expand the Remote Server Administration Tools tab and then expand the

Feature Administration Tools.

3 Select Failover Clustering Tools option and click Next.
4 Click Install.

After a few minutes, the Remote Server Administration Tools package is
successfully installed.

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