Windows Server 2008 Clustering [SCREENCAST] 1/2

This week I had a chat with Adam about the new failover clustering capabilities within Windows Server 2008 and he showed this in action. After a discussion on the whiteboard, Adam walked me through the installation of clustering support on Windows Server 2008, which involved setting up the clustered configuration across two machines and finally selecting a clustered service, which is this case was to configure Hyper-V in a clustered environment. After starting the Hyper-V virtual environment on one physical machine, Adam failed over the virtual machine to the second physical machine while still maintaining all the state and the running applications. Pretty damm cool, all in less than a minute.

There is quite a lot of information about Windows Server Clustering in Windows Server 2008.

For more details on the features of the new version, the best place to start is here @ http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/failover-clusters.mspx

For more technical information and a step-by-step guide to setting this up start here @ http://www.technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver2008/en/library/adbf1eb3-a225-...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• clustering
• Hyper-V
• Windows Server 2008

[thebigbigdaddy]

I would like to know if you guys could discuss about Exchange 2010 clustering and how to make it work. Furthermore, I would appreciate if Tape backups could be discussed. Thanks.

Awesome video - subscribed!

[Cybergast1]

i now who is behind the camera. or at least i think it is Dallas Campbell from the gadget show

[user1424]

Thanks a lot guys,

Great work.