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  • Series: Osborne Networking
  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition (April 9, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0072226226
  • ISBN-13: 978-0072226225
  • Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 0.9 x 9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 starsHow it works -Microsoft cluster.
By Jacek Kanik on November 18, 2012
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Windows Server 2003 Clustering & Load Balancing
In case you are looking for info to understand how Microsoft Windows cluster works, This is book for you. Here, in one book, you have all necessary info to know how it works. Both: Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 clusters are described. In my opinion this is good introduction to high availability and load balanced clusters. For sure, to solve Microsoft Windows cluster problems in reality, you have to go deeply into detail, these not existing in this book. You have to open other sources...
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4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars
By robert p bounds on April 16, 2015
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Great Book.. in its day
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5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent product
By Hector Medina Gimenez on June 7, 2007
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this book is a complete review for microsoft clustering. it's excellent for IT professionals
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5.0 out of 5 starsOutstanding Publication
By Peter Yourn on June 22, 2003
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In the sea of Windows Server 2003 titles surfacing, It is nice to see that at least one book, has come out by ONE author speaking from experience. I have noticed in the other books I have read, many others are having the same problems I am, the books are rushed out so 40 people write them and most of these folks have no production experience on the product so the books are pretty much a rehash of other stuff. They are rushed out, and we suffer. This book is nothing like that. The author has helped me understand exaclty what I wanted to know: how to plan a Windows 2003 upgrade from 2000 so that I can use my clusters and load balancing. Here are my favorite highlights about this book -> written from experience. You can tell the author works in the field as 90 percent of what is written comes from real life examples. You can tell that the author is not biased towards Microsoft technologies. The author tells you when he is working on something in production, he tells you when he is working in a lab. He clearly tells you the good and the bad. Another great thing is that this book is written on both the techie level and the managment level. I am a manager of a medium network, and I needed what was in this book which was tons of project planning guidance, what to buy, how to test it and so on. My last nice thing to say is that I loved how this book also took a focus on hardware for once. Too many authors write with no valid expeience so you miss all the hardware gotchas out there that people like me (in the trenches everyday and weekends) has to deal with. Not this one. You will know from when you start this book to when you put it down (thanks also that its only about 400 pages) how to design, cost estimate, implimenent, test and monitor your clusters.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsAlotta stuff missing entirely
By DAMW on February 26, 2004
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I bought this book (rather skimpy size) and win2000 clustering (bigger) book to try and tackle several clusters I am to build in 2003 EE. Thanks GOD I bought the 2000 book also. Much of the usable information came from the 2000 book, not the 2003 book. The 2000 book goes right at 2000 clusters, and covers them in detail. This 2003 cluster book spends half the paper rehashing 2000 clusters and then begins showing some of the differences in 2003. Half of the smaller 2003 book is about 2000 clusters. If you do not read the whole book, in order, you cannot build a cluster in 2003. 2003 clustering seems more like an afterthought than the main concern. I also am trying to build IIS6 failover clusters. This book mentions IIS clusters, not at all, nowhere. In 2000 clusters, IIS is a checkoff. In 2003 there is nary any clear documentation on it anywhere, especially this book. While SQL seems to be covered in the 2003 book there seems to be an absence of other program types.
This book lacks any detail on many subjects and omits critical ones entirely.
If you want a technical reference, how to book, this is not it.
Shame. Its currently the only one out there for 2003 clusters.
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4.0 out of 5 starsGood Planning Guide
By jake M on May 5, 2003
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I bought this guide to plan out my new Load Balanced farm at work with 2003 (we are using 2000 now) and found this to be a really good read on planning and design. I liked the section on the rolling upgrade from 2000 to 2003 because thats exactly what we are going to do. This book gives you a decent perspective on overall design of high availablity and gave me quite a few things to thing about that I did not think about before, especially with the emphasis on Internet facing solutions using NLB. The troublshooting sections were also valuable as 2003 is really new and this book outlines over 30 problems you are most likey going to see. In sum, This book doesnt have it all, but it has a lot to offer and is an excellent source of info for managers planning on getting their clusters up and running through the design and implimentation then troulbeshooting phases. I also like the fact that this book has NO fluff. It is a short, concise, value packed read. If more of an emphasis was placed on IIS, then I would have given this book 5 stars but all the concentration on IGMP really made up for it since it is a PAIN to set up.
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3.0 out of 5 starsGood, but does not handle Exchange Server
By Amazon Customer on July 10, 2003
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Received this book two days ago, so I didn't have the time to read the book from A..Z, but I noticed one big drawback: the book doesn't cover Exchange 2000! Although "A reader from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida USA" thinks it does.
I think Exchange 2000 is for 95% of the administrators the reason to use Windows Clustering techniques so a book like this should cover it. It isn't mentioned in the book once (see the index).
Still, in my opinion, this is one of the better (best?) books currently available on the market which handles Windows 2000/2003 Clsutering. I started with the Clustering 2000 book from Microsoft Press, but this one is out of print.
If you want to learn about Clustering: buy this book. If you wan't to know about Exchange 2000 Clustering: download the PDF from the Microsoft website (should be easy to find).
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4.0 out of 5 starsGreat for Beginners

I did like the book I is a great book which want to start learning how Clusters work and how to implement them. Read more

Published on March 11, 2007 by Marcus Lehmann
1.0 out of 5 starsA little light

This is a very light treatment of Server 2003 clustering. It is poorly organized (there's not even an entry in the index for "Quorum"! Read more

Published on August 23, 2005 by real world IT guy
1.0 out of 5 starsa 400 page introduction

I guess I'm in the minority here, but I found this book to be completely useless. I was tasked to build a new windows 2003 file and print cluster, so I bought this book to read up... Read more

Published on September 17, 2004 by Jeremy & Lolita Murrah
5.0 out of 5 starsClusters made easy

I am not one to spend hours reading through 900 page books to learn something, so this book was just perfect for me. Read more

Published on June 28, 2004
2.0 out of 5 starsSemi-accurate technical content, extremely poor writing.

This is without a doubt, the most poorly-written technical reference I've ever had the displeasure of reading. Read more

Published on February 6, 2004
4.0 out of 5 starsGood for intermediate level understanding

This book is great if you want to learn about Windows clustering. It isn't, however, so great if you already have good exposure and understanding of Windows 2000\2003 clustering... Read more

Published on November 15, 2003 by Jaewoo Kim
5.0 out of 5 starsExceptionally Well Written

I ussually keep opinions to myself of what I read and what helps me the most, every book has a different spin on technology. This spin however, I liked a lot. Read more

Published on October 24, 2003
5.0 out of 5 starsBood information for 2003 NLB

This book was pretty helpful to get a Windows Server 2003 (and a 2000) cluster off the ground. This book covered everything you needed to know from Hardware to Software. Read more

Published on September 25, 2003 by Ralph Amory
5.0 out of 5 starsGood Book

This is one of the better "focused" books out there today. It takes high availablity to a new level by not only walking you step by step through how to configure a... Read more

Published on September 22, 2003 by Jack Ross

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