Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• Purchase quality server, network hardware, and shared-storage devices and HBAs that are certified for Windows Server 2012 when deployed on failover clusters.
• If network teaming is desired, leverage the built-in Windows Server 2012 network team and configure the teams before failover or NLB clusters are created.
• Deploy cluster node operating systems on fault-tolerant disk arrays.
• Thoroughly understand the application that will be used before determining which clustering technology to use.
• Use Windows Server 2012 failover clusters to provide system-level fault tolerance for mission-critical applications, such as enterprise messaging, databases, file and print services, ...
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