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Failover clustering remains the foundation of resilient private cloud and datacenter infrastructure. Walk through the failover clustering roadmap and key investments coming in the next version of Win...
Pearl-Angeles
Updated May 15, 2026
fkh
May 13, 2026Copper Contributor
Regarding the new cluster update mechanism: would it be possible to create node groups within a cluster and define different update maintenance windows? For example, could node group 1 be updated on a Tuesday and node group 2 one or two days later?
We're running failover clusters stretched over 2 data centers and prefer to update each location separately. If this were possible, we could start using the cluster's update mechanism. :)
Rob-Hindman
Microsoft
May 13, 2026Thanks for the question, fkh !!! We are working on this capability for Cluster Native Updating (CNU) in Windows Server vNext.
-Rob.
- fkhMay 13, 2026Copper Contributor
Sounds awesome! I'm looking forward to it. :)