*What are Server Clusters?
A server cluster (MSCS) is a collection of servers that together provide a single, highly available platform for hosting applications. Applications can be failed over (i.e., restarted or hosted elsewhere) to ensure high availability in the event of planned downtime due to maintenance or unplanned downtime due to hardware, OS or application failures. Server clusters provide a highly available platform for applications such as SQLServer, Exchange Server data stores, or file and print servers.
This DVD contains the following:
* Server Cluster Whitepapers and Best Practices
• Server Clusters: Backup and Recovery Best Practices
• Server Clusters : Cluster Configuration Best Practices
• Server Cluster Frequently Asked Questions
• Technical Overview of Clustering in Windows Server 2003
• Server Clusters : Geographically Dispersed Clusters
• Server Clusters : Majority Node Set Quorum
• Server Clusters : Network Configuration Best Practices
• Server Clusters : Quorum Options
• Server Clusters : Security Best Practices
• Server Clusters : Architecture Overview
• Server Clusters : Storage Best Practices
• Troubleshooting Windows Server Clusters
• What’s New in Clustering for Windows Server 2003
• Server Clusters: Rolling Upgrades
• Server Clusters: Storage Area Networks
• Server Clusters: Remote Setup, Unattended Installations and Image-based Installations

* Server cluster presentations
NOTE: You will need Windows Media Player 9.0 or later to view the videos on this DVD.
• Cluster Management Presentations
Windows Cluster Technologies Overview
Chris Whitaker
Installing Clusters
Jim Teague
New Features: Cluster Configuration Wizard
Galen Barbee
Cluster Service Account Password Support
Charlie Wickham
Cluster WMI Provider
George Potts
Presentation
Lab
Cluster Automation Server
Ozan Ozhan
Presentation
Lab
Autoconfiguring Applications in a Cluster
David Potter
Cluster Backup and Restore
Chittur Subbaraman
• Cluster Internals
Failure Detection
Jonathan Fisher, David Dion
Cluster Database Management
Chittur Subbaraman
Registry Checkpointing
Chittur Subbaraman
Regroup and Arbitration process
Raj Das
Changes to the Network Name Resource in Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Charlie Wickham
Building Highly Available Applications
Jim Teague
Using SDK and MSDN
Roy Hirst
• Writing Cluster-Aware Applications
Cluster API
George Potts
Presentation
Writing Cluster Resource Type DLLs, Part 1
George Potts
Presentation
Lab
Writing Cluster Resource Type DLLs, Part 2
George Potts
Presentation
Lab
Generic Script Resource Type
Ozan Ozhan
Managed Code and Clustering
Ozan Ozhan
Writing Resource Types in Managed Code
Davide Potter & Ozan Ozhan
Debugging Cluster Resource Type DLLs
George Potts
Presentation
Lab
Writing Cluster Administrator Extension DLLs
George Potts
• Testing and Support
Cluster Qualification Program
Zubair Ansari
Testing MSCS
Murtaza Hakim
Product Support Services
Dave Nestor