Chapter 11

Clustering and high availability

Failover clustering

Network Load Balancing

The primary high-availability technology available in Windows Server 2019 is failover clustering. Clustering allows you to ensure that your workloads remain available if server hardware or even a site fails. Cluster sets are a new feature available in Windows Server 2019, and they allow clusters to be loosely federated. Windows Server 2019 also includes network load-balancing functionality, which allows you to scale out non-stateful workloads, such as web server front ends.

Failover clustering

Failover clustering is a stateful, high-availability solution that allows an application or service to remain available to clients if a host server fails. You can ...

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