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Windows 2000 Cluster Server Guidebook: A Guide to Creating and Managing a Cluster (2nd Edition)

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This book gives a good explanation of Windows 2000 Clustering in general. Unfortunately I bought the book not only to learn general info but for info on clustering Exchange 2000 and SQL 2000. The author is still writing about Clustering Exchange 5.5 and SQL 7.0 I was very disappointed. Therefore if your intentions are to cluster these two products I would look for another book or Microsoft Technet.

This book spends almost the first half in just clustering theory. Anyone who is getting into this should look elsewhere for that (email me and I can direct you too many online resources - FREE!). The rest of the book gives overveiws to setting up different types of apps and services for a clustrering environment. I gained nothing really out of it that I did not already pick-up from MS TIDs and manuals.

As a basic quick reference resource (if too lazy to refer to online docs), then go for it. Otherwise save your money. Books I have found for Novell and LINUX systems have always been far better resources, convering far more information. The typical MS resource I have always fouund to be weak and severly lacking.

I got a copy of this book hoping to find answers to some problems I was facing installing and configuring a SQL Server on a cluster in an Active- Active setup. I was disappointed after I read the whole book and did not find what I needed. Mr. Libertone should have explained the creation of some cluster resources in more detail. For example, the DTC resource creation was covered only in a half a page. Also, when it comes to file shares and dependencies; not very useful info there. The SQL chapter did not go into much detail, especially installing SP2. To be honest, I did not learn anything new reading this book. Even that idea about increasing the timer on boot-up on one of the nodes, I thought of that long before I read this book. To be fair to the author, this book might be useful if you know absolutely nothing about cluster server and would like to learn easy implementation and setup.

I'm new to clustering and needed to understand creating generic service resources and generic application resources in detail. I found exactly that information, in detail, in this book. If you're looking for information on SQL Server 2000 cluster installations this isn't the place, but if you want to understand clustering so that you can work with applications and services that are not cluster aware this is the best book I've seen.

While this book still contains useful information it is a rewrite of the NT4 version, and there are a lot of pages that are identical to the NT4 version. It would have been better to call it the SEcond Edition. Granted a lot of information is the same between NT4 & W2K BUT if you have the NT4 book there is no reason to buy this one!!

This book is an exceptional reference for anyone who needs to implement or maintain a Cluster Server on Windows 2000. It is also a good guide to anyone who may be considering adding a Microsoft Cluster into their IT environment.

This book gives a hands-on "How-To" for creating a cluster from design through installation - even troubleshooting should you have the need.

I had purchased "Windows NT Clustering Blueprints" for Windows NT 4.0, and while it was very good for teaching the foundations of what a cluster was and what the benefits could be in implementing one. Unfortunately if you, like I, really needed something to teach you "how", that book fell short.

"Windows 2000 Cluster Server Guidebook: A Guide To Creating and Managing A Cluster" picks up where the previous book leaves off. It teaches you what you need to know as a systems manager.

Both books together combine to give you an excellent foundation in using MSCS.

There is no other authority on cluster server setup and administration. Don't look for too many changes from the NT4.0 Version of the book... Microsoft didn't change too much!

This beats printing out the Word docs on the CD and trying to glean information from them. Dave has done a good job putting this together.

Having implemented many Clusters for large corporations, I recommend this book to all of my customers.

This book provides an excellent foundation for supporting Microsoft Windows 2000 Cluster Server. If your goal is to learn how to install, configure, customize, and troubleshoot Cluster Server this book is a must.

The book, is the NT4 version, with a 2000 label. Don't buy this book if you think it's going to resolve your Cluster Server doubts in Windows 2000 Advanced Server. Use the technet instead.