Windows Server Failover Clustering

Windows Server Failover Clustering

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Windows Server Failover Clustering	Score10 out of 10	N/A	Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) is a group of independent servers that work together to increase application and service availability.	N/A

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	Windows Server Failover Clustering
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Edwin Labirua Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Information Technology at Leviton Manufacturing Inc. (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering We fell the Windows Server Failover Clustering was better than the Oracle Real Application Clusters. Although the Oracle Real Application cluster provided an active setup it was more unstable. On more than one occasion a split brain issue had occurred when both nodes thought … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering Both VMware and Microsoft Failover do the job and they both do it extremely well. For many bussiness and environments though, they will have the existing investment in a Microsoft environment and Microsoft infrastructure. The introduction of VMware will or may achieve the end … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering The licensing cost zero due to we already had license for windows server datacenter edition, the feature is included in windows license on other hand VMware HA and VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery requires a license, on other hand we had a lot of experience in … Incentivized Helpful? Muhammad Hassan Khan Deputy Manager in Information Technology at Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering SQL Server uses a feature called Failover Clustering and it should be deployed on the Failover Cluster, SQL Server creates its own roles on the failover cluster of windows, and Windows Server failover cluster could be used to failover to the primary and secondary servers using … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering Being a part of Microsoft ecosystem integration and configuration is easy like Microsoft Exchange Server, MS SQL Server and Windows, being familiar with other Microsoft products makes it more easy to use. Features like manual failover and switching from active to node, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering Windows Server Failover Clustering is the only clustering tool I've used. I am new to clustering and have nothing else to compare it to. That said, it does the job as needed. I never felt the need to investigate other options. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering Only ever used WFC so cannot speak of other technologies or alternatives. As mentioned we're a Microsoft tech house and its included int he server OS so it just makes sense to use it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering Obvious competitors are VMware ESXi clustering and Linux KVM clustering. Windows Server Clustering was selected instead as most of our server environment is Windows Server based. Windows Server licenses were readily available, so Windows Clustering was an inexpensive option. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering Several years ago we began using DoubleTake to cover our highly critical application, Control-M/Enterprise and Control-M/Server. We configured it to perform an automatic failover in the event of a critical failure. In that scenario, the system that was mirrored and came online … Incentivized Helpful? Tommy Boucher IT Director in Information Technology at Coveo (Information Technology and Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering If you run Windows VMs, you will need licenses. With Windows Server DataCenter, you have unlimited number of VMs, and you don't need additional licenses for the Windows VMs. Running Hyper-V (Windows Server DataCenter) with Failover Cluster will be way cheaper than anything else. Incentivized Helpful? Marc-Olivier Turgeon-Ferland It Systems Administrator in Information Technology at Coveo (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) Chose Windows Server Failover Clustering If you are already on Windows Server and are using a compatible Role and hardware (Ex. Shared Storage), Windows Failover Clustering is free (If you already run Windows Server) and doesn't require much effort to put in place even as an afterthought. It isn't the best on the … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Windows Server Failover Clustering
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (12 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (1 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	8.2 (3 ratings)