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5. Click Select Profile to create a file share and then click Next.
6. On the Share location screen, select the server and share location for the file share and then click Next.
7. On the Share Name screen, type a name in the Share name field and then click Next until the Confirmation screen is
displayed.
8. Click Create to create the file share and the View results screen is displayed with the status as Completed which
indicates that the file share witness is created without any errors.
9. Click Close to exit.
Configure cluster quorum settings
The cluster configuration database, also called the quorum, contains details as to which server should be active at any given
time in a cluster set-up.
About this task
To configure the cluster quorum settings, do the following:
Steps
1. In Microsoft Windows Server 2012, click Start to open the Start screen and then click Server Manager to launch the
Server Manager dashboard.
2. Click the Server Manager icon to access the server manager and then click Failover Cluster Manager to launch the
cluster manager.
3. Right-click the cluster node, and go to More ActionsConfigure Cluster Quorum Settings to display the Configure
Cluster Quorum Wizard screen.
4. Click Next. Select Select the quorum witness from the Select Quorum Configuration Option screen.
Figure 12. Quorum cluster wizard
5. Click Next. Select All Nodes from the Select Voting Configuration screen.
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Achieve high availability on Windows Server 2012 R2/2016/2019