Learn how to easily build a simple 2 node cluster with file share witness in this step by step Windows Failover Cluster tutorial.

Keep your Failover Cluster small and cheap byusing a file share witness rather than a real 3rd node.

Our client wanted us to show them how to build the least expensive windows failover cluster they could get to run their sql cluster. However, you could easily run high availability share on it, or add Hyper-V on each node to then run this same cluster for virtual machines, like most clusters do.

This is perfect for setting up a Windows Failover Cluster with high availability, In small companies that don't have three or more nodes that are usually required for a cluster. Microsoft has made the windows failover cluster setup actually pretty easy for anyone with even moderate technical abilities. In this video we show you the problems with the windows failover cluster.

0:00 Introduction
0:20 What is a File Share Witness
1:45 Install Windows Failover Cluster Demonstration
3:33 Windows Failover Cluster Voting Explained
4:44 How To Add a File Share Witness
5:40 Create a Share For a File Share Witness
8:55 Testing High Availablility with Windows Failover Cluster
10:20 How To Change the File Share Witness on a Cluster
12:40 Add Cluster Shared Storage and Hyper-V VMs
13:55 Outro