Set the preferred site for Windows Server 2016 clustersSet the preferred site for Windows Server 2016 clusters

Q. How do I set the preferred site for Windows Server 2016 failover clustering?

A. To set the preferred site for a 2016 cluster that has sites defined use:

(Get-Cluster).PreferredSite =

If you have the situation with multi-active datacenters you can define different preferred sites for different cluster groups which will be used to govern where VMs start initially.

(Get-ClusterGroup ).PreferredSite=

Note that because of the various different levels of preference it may be confusing which wins. The order of priority for placement is: