Microsoft Cluster Technologies Update

MSCS has many minor updates all designed to make it more resilient and easier to troubleshoot. However, no major architectural change or redesign took place. The goal of MSCS is high availability through failover, whereas the goal of NLB is high availability through parallelism.

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In the rest of this chapter, the term cluster is used to refer to an MSCS cluster, and when discussing NLB cluster it will be specifically spelled out.