I've tried the windows clustering services... years ago with Windows 2000. I never had any success with the failover.
The concept is excellent: If a server fails, hardware or software, you have another server ready to pick up the services and go. VMs don't help if there is a software failure. Our problem was that when the service failed (in our case, file sharing services) the nodes did not correctly recognize the failure and promote the active server on the cluster. After a lot of failed attempts to get it to work, we abandoned all hope on windows clustering and we never looked back. My recommendation: If you want clustering, test it thoroughly before you implement it. Don't trust it until you've seen it work flawlessly. --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:ken.corne...@kimball.com] To: NT System Admin Issues [mailto:ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com] Sent: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 08:40:32 -0800 Subject: RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012 > If the service doesn't start on one server, what makes you think it would > start on the other server? > > If the service wouldn't start on the original server, it is probably because > either the data is whacked, or there is some external resource that isn't > available (user ID locked, database server not available, etc). When the > service tries to start on the failover node, it is going to see the same > problems. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph L. Casale [mailto:jcas...@activenetwerx.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 10:29 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: File Services Clustering in Server 2012 > > > Yep setting up a cluster just to protect against a service dying is > overkill. > > I think that statement might be a bit to general. What if that service > doesn't simply "restart" and 2500 people have their work impacted for 4 > hours while its resolved? 2500*$30*4=$300,000.00 as an example... > > Does that "application" cluster investment still sound unrealistic? > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
