Configure site-awareness in Windows Server 2016

Q. How do I configure the sites in Windows Server 2016 site-awareness?

A. There are two modes for site awareness; automatic and manual.

To enable the automatic site-awareness based on Active Directory sites for the cluster use:

(Get-Cluster).AutoAssignNodeSite = 1

To manually define you must first create the sites then assign the site to nodes. For example:

#Create SitesNew-ClusterFaultDomain –Name Dallas –Type Site –Description "Primary" –Location "Dallas DC"New-ClusterFaultDomain –Name Houston –Type Site –Description "Secondary" –Location "Houston DC"#Set site membership for nodesSet-ClusterFaultDomain –Name Node1 –Parent DallasSet-ClusterFaultDomain –Name Node2 –Parent DallasSet-ClusterFaultDomain –Name Node3 –Parent HoustonSet-ClusterFaultDomain –Name Node4 –Parent Houston