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correct, but not necessarily helpful. &nbsp;thanks though.
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correct, but not necessarily helpful.  thanks though.

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I want to create a staging (testing) environment for a web server, but i'd also like to use the staging environment as an emergency failover. &nbsp;It seems like the best way to set up a passive failover server is to set up a cluster, in a Windows Ent 2008 environment. &nbsp;However, my understanding leads me to believe that both active and passive servers will cluster as one &quot;instance,&quot; negating my ability to use the passive server as a test environment. &nbsp;Is this true? &nbsp;Does anyone have any recommendations on how to create a staging environment that might also fulfill some emergency failover requirements?
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I want to create a staging (testing) environment for a web server, but i'd also like to use the staging environment as an emergency failover.  It seems like the best way to set up a passive failover server is to set up a cluster, in a Windows Ent 2008 environment.  However, my understanding leads me to believe that both active and passive servers will cluster as one "instance," negating my ability to use the passive server as a test environment.  Is this true?  Does anyone have any recommendations on how to create a staging environment that might also fulfill some emergency failover requirements?

Cluster failover versus staging evironment strategy...

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.