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Mike Dimmick10-Jan-06 4:28
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Basically, in a simple two-node cluster used to achieve high availability (rather than scale-out) each node should have enough hardware capacity to manage the entire load - because, after all, in a situation where one node has failed, the other will be taking the entire load. If 1GB of memory is sufficient for your application I would expect that would be fine.

Bear in mind that Cluster Service is for fail-over support for applications that require a local data store, such as SQL Server or Exchange. In general, only one node can access that data store at a time - be the 'Active' node (Exchange supports an Active/Active mode on a two-node cluster but few people recommend it). If you just want to scale out an application, look into Network Load Balancing rather than clustering.

The reasons for the hardware: the shared disk set is used so that both nodes can get access to the shared data - it wouldn't be much use if the data (e.g. SQL database) was stored on the local hard disks of one of the nodes, and that node failed. One disk is used as the 'quorum disk' which is used to store shared cluster state - it is recommended that this is an entirely separate disk. The additional SCSI controller is used to access a shared SCSI disk array, although you can use more expensive options such as a SAN using FibreChannel, and I believe iSCSI (SCSI commands over an IP link) is now supported. For any large scale Windows deployment it's recommended that you use SCSI for the local disks too.

Each node should normally have a private network adapter, for communicating with the other node(s) in the cluster, as well as a public network adapter for serving clients.

That's what I've picked up from a little reading on the subject and playing with a cluster of virtual machines using Virtual Server. Here's[^] a guide from sql-server-performance.com, and here's[^] the one I followed, from Microsoft's TechNet site.

Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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