General Resources
· Cluster Team Site: Clustering Technical Resources
· Guide: Failover Clustering Deployment
· Guide: Validating Hardware for a Failover Cluster
· Guide: Migrating Cluster Settings
· Guide: Configuring the Quorum in a Failover Cluster
· Guide: Configuring Accounts in Active Directory
· Guide: Configure a Service or Application for High Availability
· Guide: Modifying Settings for a Failover Cluster
· Guide: Installing a Failover Cluster
· Guide: Creating a Failover Cluster
· Guide: Cluster Requirements
· Guide: Validating a cluster
· Guide: Managing a Failover Cluster
· Guide: The Failover Cluster Management Snap-In
· TechNet: Support Policy
· Webcast: Top 10 Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering Enhancements over Windows Server 2003 Clustering, Based on Best Practices (Level 300)
· Webcast: Failover Clustering 101
· Webcast: Achieving High Availability with Windows Server “Longhorn” Clustering (Level 200)
Webcast: Microsoft Webcast: Reducing IT Overhead with Windows Server 2008 Storage Features
Webcast: TechNet Webcast: Build High-Availability Infrastructures with Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering
Webcast: IT Manager Webcast: Delivering High Availability to Your Infrastructure
Webcast: TechNet Webcast: Failover Cluster Validation and Troubleshooting with Windows Server 2008
Webcast: TechNet Webcast: Failover Clustering and Quorum in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Storage
Webcast: TechNet Virtual Lab: Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Failover Clustering Lab
· Whitepaper: Failover Cluster Architecture Overview
· Whitepaper: Microsoft’s HA Strategy
· Whitepaper: Overview of Failover Clustering
Core
· Utility: Remote Server Administration Tools (simplifies Server Core configurations)
· Guide: Server Core
· TechNet: Installation
· Webcast: How Microsoft does IT: Enhancing High Availability with Server Core in Windows Server 2008
Exchange Server
- Lab: TechNet Virtual Lab: Exchange Server 2007 Standby Continuous Replication
- Lab: TechNet Virtual Lab: Using Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) in Exchange 2007
- TechNet: Installing Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) on 2008
- TechNet: Deploying Exchange 2003 in a Cluster
- TechNet: Planning for Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR)
- TechNet: Installing CCR on Windows Server 2008
- Webcast: How Microsoft IT Implemented New Storage Designs for Exchange Server 2007
File Server
· Guide: Configuring a Two-Node File Server Failover Cluster
· TechNet: Creating a Clustered File Server checklist
· TechNet: Create a Shared Folder in a Clustered File Server
· WebCast: TechNet Webcast: Prepare Yourself for Windows Server 2008 (Part 5 of 8): New File Server Features
· WebCast: How Microsoft IT Deploys Windows 2008 Clusters for File Services
· Webcast: New File Server Features of Windows Server 2008 (Level 200)
Hyper-V
· Guide: Testing Hyper-V and Failover Clustering
· Guide: Getting Started with Hyper-V
· Guide: Design for a Failover Cluster in Which All Nodes Run Hyper-V
· TechNet: High-Availability for a Server Running Hyper-V
· TechNet: Requirements and Recommendations for Failover Clusters in Which All Nodes Run Hyper-V
· TechNet: Failover Cluster in which the Servers run Hyper-V
· Webcast: TechNet Webcast: High Availability with Hyper-V
· Webcast: TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 24 of 24): High Availability with Hyper-V
· Webcast: TechNet Webcast: Creating Business Continuity Solutions Using Windows Virtualization
· Whitepaper: Quick Migration with Hyper-V
Multi-Site Clustering
· Cluster Team Site: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/us/clustering-multisite.aspx
· Guide: Deployment Considerations for Windows Server 2008 failover cluster nodes on different, routed subnets
· Webcast: TechNet Webcast: Geographically Dispersed Failover Clustering in Windows Server 2008 Enterprise
· Webcast: How You Can Achieve Greater Availability with Failover Clustering Across Multiple Sites (Level 300)
· Whitepaper: Multi-site Clustering
Network Load Balancing
· Guide: NLB Troubleshooting Overview
· Guide: Server Core: Install the NLB feature
· Guide: Create/manage/destroy NLB clusters via NLB Manager remotely from another server, or from RSAT client (admin pack) on Vista
· TechNet: Configuring NLB with Terminal Services
· TechNet: NLB Deployment Guide
· TechNet: Implementing a new NLB Cluster
· TechNet: Verifying the NLB Cluster and Enabling Client Access
· TechNet: Overview of NLB
· TechNet: Creating NLB Clusters
· TechNet: Managing NLB Clusters
· TechNet: Setting NLB Parameters
· TechNet: Controlling Hosts on NLB clusters
· TechNet: Troubleshooting for System Event Messages Related to NLB Cluster
· TechNet: User Interface: NLB Manager
· TechNet: Upgrading a NLB Cluster
· Webcast: 24 Hours of Windows Server 2008 (Part 23 of 24): Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing
SQL Server
- Guide: SQL Server 2000 with Failover Clustering
- MSDN: Getting Started with SQL Server 2008 Failover Clustering
- MSDN: Configuring SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering
- MSDN: Configuring SQL Server 2000 Failover Clustering
- TechNet: Database Mirroring and Failover Clustering
- TechNet: SQL Server 2005 Database Mirroring FAQs
- TechNet: Database Mirroring in SQL Server 2005
- Webcast: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering on Windows Server 2008
- Webcast: TechNet Webcast: 24 Hours of SQL Server 2008: Ensuring Business Continuity
- Webcast: TechNet Webcast: Overview of SQL Server Availability Features and Upcoming Improvements
- Webcast: TechNet Webcast: Achieving Higher Scalability with SQL Server on Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (Level 300)
- Webcast: Ensuring Business Continuance with SQL Server 2005 Data Availability Solutions (Level 300)
- Webcast: Clustering Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000/2005 (Level 200)
- Webcast: SQL Server 2005 for the IT Professional (Part 7 of 11): Technologies and Features to Improve Availability (Level 200)
- Webcast: SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering for SQL Server 2000 Users (Level 200)
- Webcast: An Introduction to How SQL Server 2005 Can Help You Deliver Highly Available Database Systems (Level 200)
- Webcast: Clustering Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 and 2005 (Level 200)
- Webcast: How to cluster Microsoft SQL Server 2005 by using Microsoft Virtual Server
- Whitepaper: SQL Server 2008 Replication: Providing High Availability using Database Mirroring
Useful Link:http://blogs.msdn.com/clustering/