[Info-vax] Microsoft Clusters

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at info-vax.com] On Behalf Of
> Richard Maher via Info-vax
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> Subject: Re: [New Info-vax] Microsoft Clusters
> 
> On 06-Jun-16 8:25 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > It was recently pointed out that Microsoft has done some recent work
> > on clustering. It would be nice if you could trust the product's updates
> > to not suddenly break the product however:
> >
> >
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/06/microsoft_ithinksi_its_fixed_
> windows_server_mess_its_last_fix_fixed/
> >
> 
> Do they finally have a cluster with a shared system disk?

Nope .. 

Closed thing I can tell is they have what they call CSV (cluster shared volume) 
App/user volumes.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/clustering/2013/12/02/cluster-shared-volume-csv-inside-out/

Keep in mind that it is still primary-backup fail-over clustering, but there are 
more system options to fail-over to now.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com