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A computer cluster consists of a set of connected computers that work together, and thus can be viewed and operated as a single system in many respects. A Windows cluster is such a set of computers running a Windows operating system. This feature has been available since NT 4.0.

A computer cluster consists of a set of connected computers that work together, and thus can be viewed and operated as a single system in many respects. A Windows cluster is such a set of computers running a Windows operating system. This feature has been available since NT 4.0.

Microsoft has three technologies for clustering: Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS), Component Load Balancing (CLB) (part of Application Center 2000), and Network Load Balancing Services (NLB). In Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 the MSCS service has been renamed to Windows Server Failover Clustering and the Component Load Balancing (CLB) feature has been deprecated.

As with clusters running other operating systems, there are different types of clusters, with two primary variants.

Failover clusters are designed for high availability services and typically have a subset of the cluster "active" at any one time, while the rest are in a hot standby state, ready to take over in the event of a failure.

Parallel clusters are designed for high performance, and typically have all the members active at all times, to achieve more computations at a time. Modern supercomputers are all clustered systems, which are used to perform calculations that would take too long to be feasible on independent systems.

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Load Balancing & Windows Failover Cluster 2008 r2

I have a windows service that I would like to load balance and failover. I have had a quick play with the failover cluster manager and it seems I can only have one active node with n inactive failovers. Is there a way to have two active load…
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MSCS file share majority: Why does it like a Windows-hosted share, but not a CIFS-based ZFS-hosted share?

I'm looking to change the current file share used for the file share witness in an existing two-node MSCS SQL cluster. Currently, the share is hosted by a remote windows machine, and I want to move that so that it's hosted over CIFS by a Solaris NAS…
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Upgrading 32-bit SQL Server cluster to 64-bit

Here is my situation. $WORK has a trio of three clustered database servers (64-bit Server 2003) that are currently running two SQL Server instances. Unfortunately, when the cluster was set up a couple years ago my organization did not have 64-bit…
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Active Directory Server for Windows Clustering

I understand that Windows clustering requires Active Directory. If I were to setup a Windows Server 2008 R2 cluster, will there be any issues if the Active Directory server is running Windows Server 2003 and not Windows Server 2008 ?
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How to implement Peer to peer database replication between two sites?

I am looking for SQL Server database solution which can replicate data between two sites vice versa (not just one way) I’ve looked into SQL Server failover cluster (MSCS) but then since I have two different sites (Production and DR) it would be to…
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Building Windows Clusters

I'm a research student and I want to build a windows cluster at home with my laptops to test my parallel codes. The problem is I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium, not a server edition. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and I installed Microsoft…
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what components need for clustering two windows 2008 server?

what are the basic requirement for clustering in windows 2008 server? 1.i mean which exact 2008 server licence 2. how can i connect two server what component i need for that? 3. what is minimum hardware require for server? 3. any other licenses or…
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How do I enable DAC on a clustered SQL Server 2008 after I can no longer connect to SQL Server in any other way

I'm having issues with SQLServer 2008 where a Server level triggered was not dropped correctly. Articles on the web recommend dropping them through the DAC. However, the DAC is disabled by default on Clustered environments. How do I enable the DAC…
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Testing IIS7 cluster nodes before bringing online

We are starting a migration to a IIS cluster for load balancing, failover support, as well as zero-downtime upgrades. We are currently testing this configuration with a pair of Windows 2008 R2 virtual machines. Our current approach has both VM's…
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Can I Configure a Majority and File Share Quorum Where the File Share is Accessed Over the Internet?

I have a 2-site geographically dispersed Cluster setup and have 1 node in each site. Both sites are connected with FC for large volume synchronous data replication and high-bandwidth network availability. As I understand the best quorum…
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Clustering service Configuration help

When setting up Windows Cluster, should "clustering service" run as a "domain account" or "Local System" account?
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Windows DFS File System Clustering

We're attempted to set up a high availability network for our file servers, and we're wanting to do a DFS file system cluster using the same back-end storage (our back-end storage has its own clustering mechanisms that it manages itself). The…
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Configure preferred host on which to run?

We have set up a virtual Microsoft clustered environment and I want to set one virtual machine to run on each physical server. How can I do this?
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Oracle on windows cluster with online/offline IPs

I have a windows cluster (on windows 2008 server) with nodes in different subnets. So cluster has two IPs, one for each node (I'm talking not about node IP, but about cluster IP). One is online, the other is offline. Is it possible to run Oracle…
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Microsoft Cluster or Oracle Fail Safe error

Trying to get Oracle Database 10g to work on Microsoft cluster (using Oracle Fail Safe, not RAC). Everything installed, but when trying to verify group or add database to group I get following error: FS-10220: Network name MSK00-NST01-1 maps to IP…
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