Chapter 26. Failover Clustering Installation and Configuration

In recent years, computer systems have become more and more reliable. However, systems are still subject to failures. In order to speed the recovery from these failures and provide higher availability, Microsoft has developed the failover cluster. The failover cluster is designed to restart Microsoft Windows and Microsoft SQL Server quickly to resume normal operations as soon as possible. Failover clusters are useful for both hardware and software failures.

What Is a Cluster?

A cluster is a group of computers ...

Get Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005 Administrator's Companion now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.