Clustering Services

A cluster refers to a group of devices or computers that run the common application. A group of servers are used to provide the services to provide the efficiency and optimized performance. Clustering services has become very important for the business critical and distributed applications.  High performance computing clustering technology is used in the super computers to get the high calculating power and optimized performance.

The clustered computers are physically connected with each other.  Clustering services embedded in the Windows 2000 Server, Window s2003 Server and Windows 2008 Server.  Microsoft has released Windows Computer Cluster Server 2003. It is first high performance clustering technology offered by Microsoft. Clustering provides the following major benefits.

• Scalability
• High Availability
• Manageability
• Increased performance of the business critical applications.

• Load balancing
• Fault tolerance
• Improved Storage Capacity

In Windows Cluster Server 2003, there are many enhanced features.  The setup and configurations are very easy.  It has remote administration, pre-configurations and integrated with the active directory.