Unfortunately, when I tried to configure failover clustering with Windows Server 2008, the initial clustering verification test and installation failed indicating that Windows Server 2008 could not ...

Failover Cluster holds utmost importance in a production environment. If you have configured WSFC in the environment, and for some reason, a node goes down, there will be a backup node ready to take ...

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I recently set up an Equallogic iSCSI backed 2-node MS cluster. The cluster has several cluster groups that correspond to several volumes on the SAN that contain user data. Each cluster group has 4 ...

I get a warning in the Microsoft Failover Clustering Services validation tool stating "The servers do not all have the same software updates". All of the nodes are identical and are running Windows ...

Last month I attended a session on Failover Clustering at the SQL PASS Summit Conference and it was very enlightening. I have not done too much with SQL Server Failover Clustering except in test mode ...

Server 2008 is the first, real fruit based on the controversial collaboration agreement between Microsoft and Novell, and it's also Microsoft's boldest move yet into virtualization. It also appears to ...

A novel Compact-PCI hardware/software combination from Performance Technologies can switch servers in less than 10 ms using VxWorks and only 2 ms with Linux. This is much faster than typical ...