Reference Guide

Contents 5
3 Installing Your Cluster Management
Software
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Microsoft Failover Cluster Management Console . . . 37
Running Failover Cluster Management on
a Remote Console
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Launching Failover Cluster Management
Console on a Remote Console
. . . . . . . . . . . 38
4 Understanding Your Failover Cluster . . . 39
Cluster Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Cluster Networks
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Preventing Network Failure
. . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Network Interfaces
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Cluster Nodes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Forming a New Cluster
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Joining an Existing Cluster
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Cluster Resources
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Setting Resource Properties
. . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Resource Dependencies
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Creating a Resource
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Resource Failure
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Replacing a Failed Disk
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Configuring Active and Passive Cluster Nodes
. . . . . 45
Failover Policies
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Windows Server 2008 Cluster Configurations
. . . 46
Failover and Failback Capabilities
. . . . . . . . . 52