Evaluating Failover Cluster Design Examples

Applies To: Windows Server 2008

The following design examples illustrate how you can use failover clustering to provide high availability for services and applications in your organization. You can use these topics to evaluate how the process of failover works across all of the failover clustering designs and to determine which design or combination of predefined failover clustering deployment goals best suits the goals of your organization.

• Example, Clustered File or Print Server

• Example, Clustered Instance of a Service or Application

• Example, Failover Cluster in Which All Nodes Run Hyper-V

• Example, Failover Cluster with Multiple Services and Applications

• Example, Clustered Service or Application in a Multi-Site Failover Cluster

Additional references

• For a list of the designs that are illustrated by the preceding examples, see Mapping Your Deployment Goals to a Failover Cluster Design.

• For information about deploying a specific design, see Overview of Checklists in the Failover Cluster Deployment Guide (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129458).

• For an overview of the Failover Cluster Deployment Guide, see (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=129457).