You are an Enterprise administrator for contoso.com. The company consists of a branch office and a head office. The corporate network of the company consists of a single Active Directory domain. All the servers in the domain run Windows Server 2008 and all client computers run Windows Vista.
The servers in both the offices are independent of each other and share resources. You want to deploy a clustering solution that ensures high availability minimum downtime for the servers on the network. You need to ensure that if a node fails, the disks, resources and services running on the failed node fail over to a surviving node in the cluster.
Which of the following options would you choose to accomplish the desired task?
A.
Create a Network Load Balancing cluster.
B.
Create two application pools on each Web server.
C.
Configure a Web garden on each Web server.
D.
Configure a failover cluster.
E.
None of the above
Explanation:
To ensure that if a node fails, the disks, resources and services running on the failed node fail over to a surviving node in the cluster, you need to configure a failover cluster. Windows Server 2008 supports the shared-nothing cluster model, in which two or more independent servers, or nodes, share resources; each server owns and is responsible for managing its local resources and provides nonsharing services.
In case of a node failure, the disks, resources and services running on the failed node fail over to a surviving node in the cluster. This model minimizes server outage and downtime. Only one node manages one particular set of disks, cluster resources and services at any given time.