One of the really great things about Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is that it removes the requirement for shared storage. Microsoft recommends the use of a cluster shared volume ...

You are configuring a failover cluster for a Web server. You are assigning four nodes to the cluster. All nodes have access to a SAN and there is adequate space available. Which of the following ...

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 supports running Exchange in a cluster of as many as eight nodes, and the functionality is great. If any of the nodes fails or is brought down for maintenance, the ...

Microsoft will support eight-node failover clusters in Windows .NET Enterprise Server. The decision came months after the Beta 3 release of the Windows .NET Server family editions back in November, ...

Clustering is a linchpin of Microsoft's enterprise computing strategy. To some degree with "scale-up" and to a large extent with "scale-out," clustering is extremely important to Microsoft's ability ...

The chapter includes; the new features associated with failover clustering for both SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008, it then covers step-by-steps on implementing a two node single instance ...

CNET is reporting that MS won't be developing a version of its Windows Server 2003 Compute Clustering Edition for Intel's Itanium 2 line. The reporter calls it a "slap in the face" for Itanium, but it ...

Windows OS High Availability (HA) is a tricky part of your disaster recovery (DR) planning. Many Microsoft and third-Party server tools and platforms come with some form of native HA toolset, and for ...