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Guide to Creating and Configuring a Server Cluster under Windows Server 2003

Overview A server cluster is a group of independent servers working collectively and running the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). Server clusters provide high availability, failback, scalability, and manageability for resources and applications. This document provides step-by-step instructions for creating and configuring a typical single quorum device multi-node server cluster using a shared disk on servers running the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition operating systems.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	May 2003	Downloads	7658
Format	White Papers
Topics	Server Consolidation, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003

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