Contents 3
Contents
1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Features of Failover Clusters Running
Windows Server 2008
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Supported Cluster Configurations
. . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Cluster Components and Requirements
. . . . . . 10
Operating System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
System Requirements
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Cluster Nodes
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Cluster Storage
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Other Documents You May Need
. . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2 Preparing Your Systems for
Clustering
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Cluster Configuration Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Installation Overview
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Selecting a Domain Model
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Configuring Internal Drives in the Cluster Nodes
. . . . 19
Installing and Configuring the Windows
Operating System
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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