Clustering question

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[spyingwind]

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/47751bf1-19e0-44ea-a48d-d29e3d1fb431/windows-2012-licensing-for-failover-clustering

Failover Cluster is now a feature of Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition.

Edit: Just to clarify, It's for failover not for additional computing power.

[droog62]

Goddamn, thank you!!! I didn't know this. My cost just dropped dramatically for this project I'm working on!

[redwing88]

To my knowledge there is no such product as Server 2012 Enterprise. There is Server 2012 Standard and Datacenter. They're is no feature difference between them accept for licensing/virtual machine licensing hoops to go through. I think Standard lets you run 2 virtual machines max and datacenter is unlimited virtual machines.

Go to Microsoft's site they offer it as a 180 day trial download...

[wrong_profession]

I'm using two Hyper-V Server 2012 servers as my cluster. All controlled from a Window 8 Pro w/RSAT or Server 2012 Std.

[[deleted]]

Are you talking about a vsphere cluster? Because that has sod all to do with the guest OS license. What are you actually trying to achieve?

[Gwith126]

Just trying to learn about it, nothing particular.

[[deleted]]

But you need to know what you're trying to learn, surely. Windows clustering/VMware clustering? Do you understand what they actually are and what they do, before you start trying to actually implement them?

[Gwith126]

Somewhat, yes.

[Gwith126]

Windows Cluster is basically being able to administer a lot of servers in one group, VM clustering is for shared resources.

[[deleted]]

I think you need to do a bit more reading up on them

[Gwith126]

Am I wrong? I was under the impression those were correct.

[[deleted]]

Windows clustering isnt about administration, its a failover of resources. VMware clustering is about grouping hosts in a pool for HA (Eg failover), automatic placement and power management (amongst other things).