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Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By : Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic
Book Image

Designing Hyper-V Solutions

By: Saurabh Grover, Goran Svetlecic

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Designing Hyper-V Solutions
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Hyper-V failover cluster deployment


Failover clustering provides fail-safe availability for a dedicated application or service (role). Clustering allows you to build a collection of servers with similar configurations under a virtual computer name, called a CNO (short for cluster name object). A CNO retains all the enterprise and network attributes of any normal computer/server in the environment. It has a presence in the active directory and can be accessed in the network.

As mentioned in the chapter's introduction, one of the servers in the cluster setup maintains the active state for a particular role and addresses all the transactions for the hosted role. The rest of the servers stay in the passive state, and one of the passive nodes takes over the active state only in the event of a failure of the original active node. The failure could be either hardware-, software-, or network-oriented. This setup is called active-passive clustering.

This design paradigm leaves a little dent in both...