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What Is A Server Cluster

A server cluster consists of a group of servers that work together under a single IP address to increase data protection, maintain consistency, and ensure higher availability and load balancing. If one server fails, its work can transfer to another node to reduce downtime. Server clustering provides redundancy so that a single error won't shut down the entire network and allows automatic recovery from failures without user intervention.

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What Is A Server Cluster

A server cluster consists of a group of servers that work together under a single IP address to increase data protection, maintain consistency, and ensure higher availability and load balancing. If one server fails, its work can transfer to another node to reduce downtime. Server clustering provides redundancy so that a single error won't shut down the entire network and allows automatic recovery from failures without user intervention.

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What Is A Server Cluster?

A server cluster consists of a group of servers working simultaneously under a single IP


address. Clustered servers are commonly used for servers that include files, prints,
databases, and messages. These clusters increase data protection and maintain the
consistency of cluster configuration over time. Server clustering also ensures higher
availability, proper load balancing, and system scalability. 
Each server associated with a cluster is called a node, which has its own hard drive,
RAM, and CPU resources to command. If one server within the cluster fails, then the
work can easily transfer to another server. When another server takes over, the clusters
will reduce downtime and outages. Since the work is uninterrupted, users will be able to
easily access server related resources at any given time.

Benefits of Server Clustering

A server cluster on a single network provides redundancy and ensures that a single error
will not shut down the entire network. Server clustering allows you to automatically
recover from outage failures without user intervention. If there is a problem with one of
the servers within the cluster, then it will not affect the availability of the data or
applications. For data centers that need uninterrupted performance, server clustering is an
excellent way to configure and manage servers. 

Windows Resource manager

A. Available only for Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, and Windows Server
2003, Enterprise Edition, WSRM is a component that's used to throttle CPU and memory
usage on the servers on which it's installed. WSRM can be useful when you want to run
multiple applications on a server while ensuring that no application consumes more than
its fair share of resources, which could impede other applications' performance. WSRM
lets you place caps on a process or user level to make sure that all processes have the
required resources.

WSRM uses "soft" caps, which means that although each process is limited to a specific
percentage of CPU utilization and amount of memory, a process can exceed the limit if
no other process is competing for the resource. Let's say I've defined caps for three
applications:

1. Application 1: 30 percent of CPU


2. Application 2: 50 percent of CPU
3. Application 3: 20 percent of CPU

If applications 2 and 3 each used 10 percent of the CPU and application 1 required more
than its 30 percent allocation, WSRM would give application 1 the additional amount that
it required, up to 80 percent of the total CPU. However, if one of the other applications
later required more CPU, WSRM would grant the other application the amount of CPU it
requested, up to its limit.

WSRM is supplied on the Windows 2003 Datacenter and Windows 2003 Enterprise CD-
ROMs. You can also download WSRM at

Microsoft Meta Directory Services

Last Updated on Thu, 17 Dec 2020 | Enterprise Deployments

MMS is a special application that is designed to oversee multiple directory services.


MMS manages the operations of several directories to ensure data integrity. If you install
MMS over AD and you identify AD as the primary source of information, MMS will
automatically modify the values in other directory services when you modify values in
AD.

The Standard Edition of MMS is available for free (http://www.microsoft.com/mms/) and


is designed to support the integration of data between AD, AD/AM, and Exchange. The
Enterprise Edition is designed to integrate heterogeneous data sources. Both run as
services on Member Servers and both include simplified deployments. It is important to
keep in mind that MMS implementations are additional and separate from AD
implementations. But the advantages are clear. If you need to integrate several directories
such as in-house databases, third-party software applications, and even other forests, or if
you need to integrate AD and AD/AM, MMS is the best way to ensure that data is
populated from one information source to all others or automatically synchronize data in
multiple deposits. It will also help you manage the employee move, add, and change
process since it provides
Hot Add memory

Hot add refers to the ability to dynamically add hardware, virtual or physical, to a
running system without downtime.

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