Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
Purchasing quality server and network hardware is a good start to building a fault-tolerant system, but the proper configuration of this hardware is equally important.
Create disk subsystem redundancy using RAID technologies.
Plan for a sufficient amount of TCP/IP addresses to support current and future cluster needs.
Do not run both MSCS and NLB on the same computer; it is unsupported by Microsoft because of potential hardware sharing conflicts between MSCS and NLB.
Active/Passive mode is easiest to manage and maintain, and the licensing costs are generally lower.
To avoid unwanted failover, power management should be disabled on each of the cluster nodes, both in the motherboard ...
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