Configuring Failover and Failback
Clusters that contain two or more nodes automatically have failover configured for each role group as long as each node has the necessary services or applications installed to support running the group locally. Failback is never configured by default and needs to be manually configured for each role group if desired. Failback allows a designated preferred server or “preferred owner” to always run a particular cluster group on the preferred node, when it is available. When the preferred owner fails and the affected groups failover to alternate nodes, once the preferred node is back online and functioning as desired, the failback configuration options are used to determine whether the group will automatically fail ...
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