elizateh
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Windows Clustering
Dear all,
Hope anyone can provide me with some information of windows clustering for the below queries:
1)What do you mean by cluster group, database cluster group and cluster networks
2)Hardware and software requirements for clustering
3)Can clustering work without a share disk?
4)the raid setting required for both local disk and external disk system
5)services required for clustering environment
6)differences between physical shared disk and virtual shared disk system
7) How do we carry out backup in a cluster environment? Any difference from the normal backup in windows 2000 advance server
Thank you.
regards,
eliza
Hope anyone can provide me with some information of windows clustering for the below queries:
1)What do you mean by cluster group, database cluster group and cluster networks
2)Hardware and software requirements for clustering
3)Can clustering work without a share disk?
4)the raid setting required for both local disk and external disk system
5)services required for clustering environment
6)differences between physical shared disk and virtual shared disk system
7) How do we carry out backup in a cluster environment? Any difference from the normal backup in windows 2000 advance server
Thank you.
regards,
eliza
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No, at least one disk (the Quorum) has to be a shared disk (leew mentioned this already). The same applies to every disk resource, the other node should be able to access in the case of a failover or manual move. The only cluster without shared disks I've ever heard of is the former VINCA (now LEGATO) Standby Server.
"Shared nothing" means, that only one node has access to the disk(s) - or generally to a resource - at a given time.
"Shared nothing" means, that only one node has access to the disk(s) - or generally to a resource - at a given time.
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