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Windows 2000 Clustering and Load Balancing Handbook View Larger Image | Joseph M. Lamb
Prentice Hall, Paperback, Published November 2001, 403 pages, ISBN 0130651990 | List Price: $54.99
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The definitive, hands-on guide to Windows 2000 clustering!
- Microsoft clustering: hands on, step by step!
- Planning, deployment, and administration
- Supporting DNS, Active Directory, and other network services
- Clustering SQL Server 2000, Exchange Server 2000, file/print, IIS, and more
- Managing clusters with Application Center 2000
Building robust, high-performance clustered systems with Microsoft technology?
There's no room for error: too much is riding on your data and your applications.
Get the one book that delivers authoritative guidance from the standpoint of
real, hands-on implementers: Windows 2000 Clustering and Load Balancing Handbook.
Regardless of your application, or how much (or little) clustering experience
you have, this book's specific, tested techniques will support you every step
of the way — through design, construction, and day-to-day administration.
Coverage includes:
- Failover clustering, load-balance clustering, distributed systems clustering,
and component load balancing
- Maximizing fault tolerance, performance, flexibility, and scalability
- Integrating cluster servers with DNS, WINS, Active Directory, and other
network services
- Clustering SQL Server 2000, Exchange Server 2000, Windows 2000 file/print
shares, Internet Information Server, and more
- Managing clusters with Application Center 2000
This is Microsoft clustering hands on: step-by-step directions; practical optimization
techniques; and solutions for the challenges, applications, and software environments
you're most likely to face. If you're deploying or supporting a Windows cluster
enterprise, this book is simply indispensable.
Table
Of Contents
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Climbing the Mountain: 24/7 Data Access.
Fault Tolerance. Performance. Scalability. Reliability. Designing Reliable Data
Access. Summary.
2. What
is a Cluster?
Cluster History. Clustering for Fault Tolerance. Cluster Types. Cluster Models.
Windows 2000 Clustering. Summary.
3. Clustering
Design Issues.
Cluster Server Planning. Hardware Requirements. Software Requirements. Placement
Considerations. Network Services. Design Samples. Summary.
4. Building
a Failover Cluster.
Resource Configuration. Hardware Configuration. Operating System Install. Network
Configuration. -Configuring the Shared Disk Array. Clustering Software Install.
Testing the Installation. Managing the Failover Cluster.
5. Building
a Load-Balanced Cluster.
How Does It Work? Preplanning. Operating System Install. Configuring NLB. -Configuring
Internet Information Server. Testing the Installation. -Managing a Network Load-Balanced
Cluster. Summary.
6. Microsoft
Application Center 2000.
Product Overview. Product Features. Installing AC 2000. -Component Load Balancing:
Three-Tiered Clusters. Managing AC 2000.
7. Clustering
Microsoft SQL Server.
Overview of SQL Clustering. Designing an SQL Cluster. -Installing SQL Server
2000 on a Cluster. -Managing an SQL Server Cluster. Summary.
8. Clustering
Exchange Server 2000.
-Overview of Exchange Server Clustering. -Designing an Exchange Server 2000
Cluster. -Installing Exchange Server 2000. -Managing Exchange Server 2000.
9. Clustering
Internet Information Server.
IIS Overview. Clustering the WWW Service. Clustering the FTP Service. Clustering
the SMTP Service. Summary.
10. Clustering
File and Print Services.
Introduction. Clustering File Shares. Clustering DFS. Clustering Print Shares.
Summary.
Index.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews: 3 Average Customer Rating: Dec 19, 2003
Invaluable resource for actually working on it.
This is not the book if you want to certify on clusters, but if you are faced with implementing a cluster solution and making it work, this is the one.
Oct 19, 2003  A review from NJ
Excellent 1st book to read on the subject
I'm putting together a W2K cluster with 4 servers and 2 disk arrays and this is my first try at it. Two servers are an IIS FE and the other two are an SQL BE. I'm teched out on HP & Compaq, but this is going on all-new-to-me IBM boxes. I have received the HW and have a couple of weeks to put it together w\o having been given a clear decision whether they want it load-balanced, failed over or a hybrid of the two. I believe they just want it all and reserve the right to change it later on me. This book is putting the wrapper and the glue around the vendor documentation and MS White Papers for me to ask the right questions, secure commitments and get the job done, while making sure to keep the customer aware of future issues if they decide to change their minds, later. If some good up-to-date vendor-specific examples of HP/Compaq, DELL, IBM, etc., in appendices or on CDROM were included, I would probably have given it 5 stars.
May 3, 2002 A review from New Hampshire, USA
Excellent first book on Windows 2000 Clustering
My job is split between server administration and web development. One day my boss comes up to me and says 'We just bought a cluster server for our intranet. You can start setting it up anytime'. I thought 'Oh great. What the hell is a cluster?' and then started looking for a book to save my bacon. Using just this book, I was able to learn about clustering, plan our cluster, and successfully setup and configure a clustered intranet web server and file shares. Lamb assumes administrator skills on Windows 2000, but beyond that he provides pretty much all the background you need to set up standard types of cluster applications. He will get your cluster off the ground and provides detailed explanations of how to configure the hardware, drives, NICs, cluster service and cluster aware applications such as web, ftp, smtp, SQL Server, file shares and more. There's plenty more to learn about clustering, but this book will certainly get you going and I haven't seen much else out there for books on this subject.
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