Missing steps in lab Failover clustering for scale out file servers

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Hi,

I'm working my way through the virtual labs for installing server 2016 and noticed a number of steps missing for the lab above. After you have added clustering and validated it, you are asked to add the Quorum disk in Task 4 - Configure the Quorum Disk Witness and Cluster Shared Volume. The steps to first add the actual storage are missing. I was thinking have I missed some steps, am I doing it wrong.

The previous lab which is the same steps, has you add the disks to the storage in the failover cluster manager first.

Is this intentional, as a troubleshooting test?

Thanks

Chris

Hello @Christopher-Thorne,

Can you be more specific as to which course this lab is part of? I'm having trouble finding it.

Hi Mike

It's Installation Storage and Compute with Windows Server 2016

thanks

Chris

@Christopher-Thorne ,

I'm not sure why they did this, but it looks like it was intentional. If you scroll down a little further in the instructions, you will see this...

So you are correct, the steps are missing, and you will need to add the disks as available storage before you run the quorum configuration wizard. Just cancel the wizard, expand storage, select disks, and add both cluster disks. Then run the quorum configuration wizard again, and the drives should show up.

I guess they are teaching us that the wizard will detect there are no available drives, and will prompt us to add them.

Cheers Mike thought I was going mad ha ha