Event Review: Clustering Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2000 / 2005 (Session TNT1-150)Welcome to the material supporting page for this session. The materials on this page have been selected as the best matches to the content covered in the live event session. Session OutlineClustering is an important technique for building resilient systems and maintaining throughput. Microsoft provides two key, complementary technologies for implementing low-cost, highly available clusters: Network Load Balancing and Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). Network Load Balancing is used for distributing incoming IP traffic across a cluster of servers. It is ideal for enabling incremental scalability and outstanding availability for e-commerce Web sites. Microsoft Cluster Service provides failover capability by exploiting redundancy across multiple connected machines. If a server running an application fails, MSCS can arrange for another computer in the cluster to take over its work and resources. SQL Server can take advantage of MSCS to implement a highly available database server. SQL Server can also indirectly make use of NLB in a Web farm environment to spread client requests to different servers. This session describes the purposes and roles of NLB and MSCS, highlighting the way in which they operate, and showing how they can be managed and used to implement a clustered SQL Server database server. Session AgendaRelated LinksUse the following resources to learn more about topics covered in this briefing.
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