Microsoft Technologies that Yield High Availability
As you will see in the coming chapters, there are several mainline technology offerings from Microsoft that will allow you to design a tailored high availability solution that best matches your company's availability needs. As already mentioned earlier, this book will focus on the most viable and production worthy options:
Cluster services (MSCS)— Available only with Windows Advanced Server and Windows DataCenter Server. Cluster services allow for between two and four machines to be made aware of each other in such a way that if one should fail, the other will take over its resources (like its shared disk, and so on). An application will need to be “cluster aware” for it to take advantage of ...
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