What types of applications and services will benefit from MSCS clustering?
“In the box” services of Windows NT Server, Enterprise Edition: File shares, print queues, Internet/intranet sites managed by Microsoft Internet Information Server, Windows NT Server’s built-in Web server; Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ) services, and Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS) services, both of which are part of Windows NT Server. Generic applications: MSCS includes a point-and-click wizard for setting up any well-behaved server application for basic error detection, automatic recovery, and operator-initiated management (for example, move to the other). A “well behaved” server application is one that keeps a recoverable state on shared SCSI disk(s), and whose client can gracefully handle a pause in service of up to a minute as the application is automatically restarted by MSCS. Cluster-aware applications: Software vendors will test and support their application products on MSCS. Over time, vendors will provide MSCS-based enhancements, from simpler setup and faster failov