1. Windows Server 2008 R2 High Availability Steve Evans http://SerkTools.com

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3. Stand Alone Application Data Free Simple Good Enough?

4. Application Redundancy Application Data Application Data AD/DNS/SMTP Protocol Support Perfect!

5. Load Balancer Application Data Application Data Load Balancer Web Servers Remote Desktop Services App Support Helps

6. Fail Over Clustering Application Data Application Data File Services/SQL Shared Storage Complicated Expensive

7. No Majority: Disk Only Shared Volume Single Point of Failure Old School == BAD! Cluster Config

8. Node Majority Each Node Gets 1 Vote Cluster Requires Majority Cluster Config

9. Node & Disk Majority Shared Volume Shared Disk can have 1 vote Even # of Nodes Cluster Config

10. Multi Site Clustering Dedicated Volume Replication File Share Witness VERY Complicated Replication by 3 rd Party Cloud for File Share Witness?

11. File Server Cluster vol0 vol1 vol2 Cluster Group Type: DFS Root Network Name: serk-file Disk: vol0 IP Address Cluster Group Type: File Server Network Name: serk-file-01 File Share: share$ Disk: vol1 IP Address Cluster Group Type: File Server Network Name: serk-file-02 File Share: share$ Disk: vol2 IP Address

12. DFS Client Experience

13. Hyper-V Live Migrate Guest Level Clustering Application Agnostic Simplified Guests

14. PowerShell Support

15. Top Windows Failover cmdlets Add-ClusterDisk Add/Remove-ClusterNode Add/Remove-ClusterGroup Get/Set-ClusterQuorom Get/Set-ClusterLog Move-ClusterGroup New-Cluster Test-Cluster

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