Chapter 15 - Managing Failover Clustering - Do I know this already? Flashcards
Which of the following would not be an option with the Virtual Machine role in Failover Cluster Manager?
a. Monitor
b. Start
c. Stop
d. Connect
a. Monitor
What SMB 3.0 feature enables continuously available shares?
a. SMB Direct
b. SMB Scale-Out
c. SMB Transparent Failover
d. SMB Multichanne
c. SMB Transparent Failover
Which is not a valid prerequisite for VM monitoring?
a. The VM must be Generation 1.
b. The VM must be in the same domain as the Hyper-V host.
c. Windows Firewall must permit the monitoring rules inbound.
d. The Hyper-V cluster administrator must be a member of the local Administrators group on the VM.
a. The VM must be Generation 1.
What cmdlet in PowerShell allows the configuration of VM monitoring?
a. Create-MonitoredClusterVM
b. Set-ClusterVMItem
c. Add-ClusterVMMonitoredItem
d. Get-VMMonitoredItem
c. Add-ClusterVMMonitoredItem
What is a stretch cluster?
a. A cluster that has nodes in two different domains
b. A cluster that has nodes using Server 2012 and Server 2016
c. A cluster that has nodes maxing out the RAM of a failover host
d. A cluster that has nodes in a different geographic area
d. A cluster that has nodes in a different geographic area
What is Server Message Block (SMB) 3.0?
An enhanced version of technology that makes Windows shares available on the network.
What is Failback?
A process in which a cluster moves a role back to the original node.
What is a Stretch Cluster?
A cluster with nodes in different geographic areas.
What are Site-Aware Clusters?
Clusters in which the fault domain values are used with nodes to find the site the node belongs to in a stretch cluster.
What is Node Fairness?
A balancing technique in Windows Server 2016 which ensures that nodes in a cluster are not overtaxed with workloads.
What encryption algorithm does SMB 3.0 use for SMB encryption?
AES
What components of a VM do you monitor with VM monitoring?
Services
What are the three options on the Recovery tab in Service Control Manager?
- First Failure
- Second Failure
- Subsequent Failures
What PowerShell cmdlet do you use to create a stretch cluster site?
New-ClusterFaultDomain
For the DFS Namespace cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
DFS Namespaces (part of File Server role)
For the DHCP server cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
DHCP server role
For the Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
None
For the File Server cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
File Server role
For the Generic Application cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
Not Applicable
For the Generic Script cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
Not Applicable
For the Generic Service cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
Not Applicable
For the Hyper-V replica broker cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
Hyper-V role
For the iSCSI target server cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
iSCSI Target Server (part of file server role)
For the iSNS server cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
iSNS server Service feature
For the Messaging Queuing cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
Messaging Queuing Services feature
For the Other server cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
None
For the Virtual Machine cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
Hyper-V role
For the WINS server cluster role what is the prerequisite or role?
WINS server feature
What are some SMB 3.0 features that are ideally suited for clustering?
- SMB Transparent Failover
- SMB Scale-out
- SMB Multichannel
- SMB Direct
- SMB Encryption
- VSS for SMB File Shares
- SMB Directory Leasing
What is SMB Transparent Failover?
Transfers client sessions from one cluster node to another without client interruption
What is SMB Scale-out?
Enables a share to be accessible by clients from all nodes in the cluster simultaneously; note that this effectively increases the share’s usable bandwidth
What is SMB Multichannel?
Allows file servers to use the bandwidth from multiple network adapters simultaneously
What is SMB Direct?
Uses Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) and allows SMB 3.0 to complete directory memory-to-memory data transfers between remote systems
What is SMB Encryption?
Provides end-to-end AES encryption between servers and clients
What is VSS for SMB File Shares?
Enables VSS-aware backup applications to perform application consistent shadow copies of VSS-aware server applications storing data on SMB 3.0 file shares
What is SMB Directory Leasing?
Reduces the latency for file access over high-latency WAN networks
How do you configure monitoring for a VM?
Step 1. Launch Server Manager and select Tools > Failover Cluster Manager.
Step 2. In the Roles pane, select the VM for monitoring, and in the Actions page, click More Actions and then click Configure Monitoring.
Step 3. In the Select Services page, select the services you want to monitor and click OK.
How do you configure monitoring for a VM in Powershell?
Add-ClusterVMMonitoredItem cmdlet
How do you create a stretch cluster?
Step 1. First use the New-ClusterFaultDomain PowerShell cmdlet to define the sites.
Step 2. Use the Set-ClusterFaultDomain cmdlet to assign the cluster nodes to the sites you have created
