Summary
Building out your company’s infrastructure with clustering technology at the heart is a huge step toward achieving five-nines reliability. If you do this, every application, system component, or database you deploy on this architecture has that added element of resilience. And, in many cases, the application or system component changes needed to take advantage of these clustering technologies are completely transparent. Utilizing a combination of NLB and MSCS allows you not only to fail over applications but to scale for increasing network capacity.
The two-node, active/passive node is one of the most common SQL Server Clustering configurations used. As you become more familiar with SQL Server Clustering and your high-availability requirements ...
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