“Validate” in Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering is your friend

posted by  mneon (8)  10 months ago (blogs.technet.com)

Windows Server 2008 greatly simplifies the installation, configuration and management of Failover Clusters. It’s hard to believe, but the process to create a cluster becomes a simple wizard where you need to enter only the names of the servers (nodes) in the cluster and the cluster name (if you don’t use DHCP, you’ll need to provide an IP address). Truly amazing, if you consider that the Windows Server 2003 procedure required following the instructions on a white paper dozens of pages long. There’s a trick there, though, and it’s called “Validate”.

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