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Microsoft Cluster Service or network load balancing?
News The first of my recent articles on Windows clustering prompted a member to ask about the differences between the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) and Microsoft's other clustering technology, network load balancing (NLB).
[November 7, 2002, 15:28]
Webcast: Using Offsite Data Replication to Protect Your Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) Clusters
White Papers Shared storage clusters such as Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) clusters provide excellent protection from server and application failures. But clusters represent just one layer of resiliency in your data protection strategy.
[December 5, 2006, 11:57]
Microsoft drops Windows cluster bomb
Talkback At the same time, it is also abusing an intellectual property protection service to actively stifle any further developments it's open-source competitors may have made. So Microsoft is allowed to take a complete, free copy of open-source based IT...
[April 6, 2005, 11:51]
TechNet Webcast: High Availability in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (Level 300)
White Papers The attendee of this webcast will learn how Local Continuous Replication (LCR), Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR), Standby Continuous Replication (SCR), and Single Copy Clusters (SCCs) provide fast recovery for events that used to be called...
[August 28, 2007, 1:00]
TechNet Webcast: Clustering Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 / 2005 (Level 200)
White Papers Two Microsoft complementary technologies for implementing low-cost, highly available clusters are Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). Microsoft Cluster Service provides failover capability by exploiting redundancy...
[May 24, 2005, 0:00]
Windows 2000 Advanced Server: Clustering Microsoft ITG Infrastructure Services
White Papers Cluster service in Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Windows 2000 Data Center Server provides high availability by allowing a server in a cluster to take over and run a service or application that was running on another server that has failed, a...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Stratus ftServer 6200 review
Reviews Enterprise Editions of Windows Server include Microsoft Cluster Service and so could be clustered for high availability. By contrast, only applications that are fully cluster aware offer that degree of high availability using Microsoft Cluster...
[June 2, 2008, 10:04]
Sun plots its data-centre domination
News Microsoft is providing four-node clustering with Windows 2000 Datacenter; Sun is expected to offer eight-node clustering with Sun Cluster 3.0 Sun is set to unveil the latest versions of its Sun Cluster and Sun Management software, sources close to...
[December 4, 2000, 8:27]
Microsoft starting to win over Linux servers
News But when it comes to the Linux-dominated cluster market, though, familiarity with Microsoft can be a burden as well as an asset. Windows Compute Cluster Server (CCS) runs on a group of interconnected computers that collectively tackle calculation...
[April 10, 2007, 7:16]
The 10 Most Important Things About Failover Clustering
White Papers Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 (formerly known as Microsoft Cluster Service, or even "Wolfpack") has undergone significant enhancement from previous versions, and as a result what people knew about Failover Clustering in Windows Server...
[April 27, 2009, 1:21]
TechNet Webcast: Clustering SQL Server 2005 on Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast discuss the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) clustering architecture in the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server code-named "Longhorn" operating systems.
[August 4, 2008, 0:00]
Windows Server 2003 Clustering: New Features
White Papers This Support WebCast will discuss the new features of the server cluster technologies (formerly Microsoft Cluster Service or MSCS) that are included in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition.
[November 11, 2003, 23:00]
TechNet Webcast: Clustering Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 and 2005 (Level 200)
White Papers Microsoft provides Network Load Balancing (NLB) and Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) to implement low-cost, highly available clusters. NLB distributes incoming IP traffic across a cluster of servers, and MSCS exploits redundancy across multiple...
[October 6, 2005, 0:00]
A Step-by-Step Guide to Cluster-to-Cluster Data Replication
White Papers With HP OpenView Storage Mirroring, which works within the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) and is powered by NSI SoftwareÂ’s Double-Take patented Sequential Transfer Asynchronous Replication technology, you can perform data replication in any of...
[November 17, 2006, 17:07]
Creating and Configuring a Highly Available Print Server Under Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Using a Server Cluster
White Papers A server cluster is a group of independent servers working collectively and running the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating and configuring a highly available print server utilizing a typical...
[July 20, 2004, 3:00]
MS Windows NT Load Balancing Service Whitepaper
White Papers WLBS dynamically distributes IP traffic across multiple cluster nodes, and provides automatic failover in case of node failure. Microsoft Windows NT Load Balancing Service (WLBS), a feature of Windows NT Server 4.0, Enterprise Edition, provides...
[June 2, 2006, 0:00]
Microsoft gives new life to SMS
News It will include tighter integration with the Active Directory directory service at the heart of Windows 2000, improved remote-user support, as well as enhanced cluster server capabilities, according to Microsoft.
[January 17, 2001, 16:04]
TeleWest to move to Zeus
News Once a site has a Zeus server as a firewall, it can move content across to that machine as required, and expand it to a cluster without any downtime, said Parker. Other users of Zeus include Demon, UUnet and eBay, the last of which changed from an...
[November 14, 2001, 14:29]
Muglia: Microsoft's future is in 64-bit
News The opportunity is there for people to have less cluster-focused disk applications. It is different from a consulting service and I need to distinguish between delivering software as a service versus a standard consulting service — a customised...
[November 16, 2006, 12:05]
Singapore to offer commercial grid computing
News University grids typically have a small cluster of eight to 10 CPUs, while Alatum has 300. The three service-provider groups appointed by Singapore's Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) will activate on-demand access to computing power and...
[October 30, 2008, 13:02]
