Before taking the exam, review the key points and terms that are presented in this chapter. Return to the lessons for additional practice.
Use static IP addressing for cluster network adapters. This prevents DHCP from being a point of failure.
Cluster nodes brought back online do not fail back unless a fail back policy is configured.
Network Load Balancing cannot monitor application services.
The Cluster Service cannot load balance.
Exchange Server 2003 supports only two-node active/active clusters.
cluster group A cluster group is a collection of cluster resources and is used to define the settings that make up a virtual server on a cluster. When a failover occurs on a node of the cluster, it is the cluster group that fails over to another node.
cluster resource A cluster resource is an individual component of a cluster virtual server, such as an IP address, a network name, or a physical disk. Cluster resources are collected into groups. When a resource fails, it restarts according to a configurable policy. If a resource exceeds its restart threshold, it can force a failover of the entire group it belongs to.
virtual server A virtual server is a configured server resource that exists through a set of software resources and settings. A virtual server is a way of mapping a collection of services and resources to physical resources and having them appear to client computers as distinct physical servers.
quorum disk The Cluster Service uses a quorum disk to maintain the master copy of the configuration data for all server nodes in a cluster. The quorum disk in a multi-node cluster must be on a shared disk resource accessible by all members of the cluster.
node A server that is a member of a cluster.