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mscs群集（mscs群集） MSCS profile (Microsoft server cluster) 2007, Friday, 03, 30, 09:33 A server cluster is a group of independent servers that work together and run Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). The server cluster provides high availability, fault recovery, scalability, and manageability for resources and applications. The server cluster allows clients to access applications and resources in the event of a failure and scheduled pause. If one server in the cluster fails because of failure or maintenance requirements, resources and applications will be transferred to the available cluster nodes. For the Windows cluster solution, the term high availability is more appropriate than using fault tolerance. Fault tolerance techniques provide higher levels of resilience and resilience. Fault tolerant servers usually use deep hardware redundancy, and with specialized software, almost any single hardware or software error can be immediately restored. These solutions are much more expensive than the Windows cluster solution because the enterprise must pay for the redundant hardware that waits for errors in an idle state. The server cluster does not guarantee uninterrupted operation, but does provide sufficient availability for most critical task applications. Cluster services can monitor applications and resources and automatically identify and recover numerous failures. This provides flexibility for managing workload in the cluster. In addition, the availability of the whole system is improved The advantages of cluster services include: High availability: ownership of resources, such as disk drives and Internet protocol (IP) addresses, is automatically transferred from the failed server to the available server through the server cluster. When a system or application fails in a cluster, the cluster software restarts the fault application on the available server, or the work is dispersed from the fault node to the remaining nodes. As a result, users only feel service pauses in