Chapter 6. Windows Clustering
No book on availability in a Windows datacenter would be complete without discussing Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS).
From its introduction after the initial release of Windows NT 4.0 in the first Enterprise Edition through Windows Server 2003, MSCS was often regarded as nonviable by mainstream IT implementers because of its complexity or because of a few deployment restrictions. But Windows Server 2008 delivered significant improvements in simplifying the deployment and manageability of Windows clusters, and things only get better in Windows Server 2008 R2.
Overview of Clustering in Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2
This chapter focuses exclusively on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2. All references to Windows Server ...
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