Failover Cluster APIs

Purpose

The Failover Cluster APIs are provided by failover clustering on Windows Server. Developers can use the Failover Cluster APIs to do these tasks:

Define software and hardware component types to manage on a failover cluster.
Run clustering tasks that increase the scalability and availability of the application.
Monitor and control failover clusters.

A summary of changes to the Failover Cluster APIs.

Overview and architecture:

Conceptual documentation that includes overview information and describes the architecture of the Failover Cluster APIs.

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Programming tasks and guidance:

Task oriented documentation that describes how to use the Failover Cluster APIs.

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Reference documentation:

Reference documentation that describes the programming elements of the Failover Cluster APIs.

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A glossary that describes the terms used in this documentation.

For more external information about the technologies used by the Failover Cluster APIs, refer to the following resources:

Information	Resource
Installing, configuring, and administering a failover cluster	Windows Server 2008 R2: [Failover Clusters](/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc754482(v=ws.11)) Windows Server 2012 R2: [Failover Clustering Overview](/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2012-R2-and-2012/hh831579(v=ws.11))
The clustering concept, common clustering models, and the history and current state of clustering technology	In Search of Clusters, Second Edition, by Gregory F. Pfister, ISBN: 0-13-899709-8.
Component Object Model (COM) programming and automation	COM and Automation documentation on [MSDN Library](Http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=83469). Inside COM by Dale Rogerson, ISBN: 1-57231-349-8.
Supporting Unicode in your applications	[Unicode and Character Sets](/windows/win32/intl/unicode-and-character-sets) Advanced Windows, Third Edition, by Jeffrey Richter, ISBN: 1572315482.
Scripting	Windows Script Host, Active Server Pages (ASP), Scripting, JScript Language, and VBScript Language References on MSDN.
Synchronization objects, asynchronous event notifications, reentrancy, services, and thread and process management	[Dynamic-Link Libraries](/windows/win32/dlls/dynamic-link-libraries). [Processes and Threads](/windows/win32/procthread/processes-and-threads).