Re: clustering

From: Christopher L. Estep (pghammer21@comcast.net)
Date: 03/31/02

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    From: "Christopher L. Estep" <pghammer21@comcast.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 01:35:18 GMT

    "someone" <ss@ss.com> wrote in message news:a85gv1$c7j$1@usenet.otenet.gr...
    > Hello people, i got 2 servers running windows nt 4 server enterprise
    > edition.
    >
    > Iam new in clustering and i dont know yet how it works, when i try to set
    up
    > the cluster it asks me to add SHARED disks and i didnt quite understand
    what
    > it means by that, are these "shared" disks the 2 server's hard drives or
    > they are external SCSI hard drive boxes ONLY ?
    >
    > One of my servers has 3 scsi hard drives cant i create a cluster by
    sharing
    > these drives or do i have to buy external drive units to create a cluster
    ?
    >

    The strict definition for clustering is two (or more) physical servers
    treated as a single logical server.

    This has long been possible in UNIX; Windows 2000 Server was the first
    NT-based operating system for server to support clustering.

    Christopher L. Estep

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