Windows Server Failover Clustering Reviews

Name: Windows Server Failover Clustering
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4 (8 reviews)

Vendor: Microsoft

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Windows Server Failover Clustering provides infrastructure features that support the high-availability and disaster recovery scenarios of hosted server applications such as Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Exchange. If a cluster node or service fails, the services that were hosted on that node can be automatically or manually transferred to another available node in a process known as failover.

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Windows Server Failover Clustering is the #1 ranked solution in top High Availability Clustering solutions. PeerSpot users give Windows Server Failover Clustering an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Windows Server Failover Clustering is most commonly compared to Veritas InfoScale Availability: Windows Server Failover Clustering vs Veritas InfoScale Availability. Windows Server Failover Clustering is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 63% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 18% of all views.

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Tal Adler

Engineer at Magal Solutions

Jul 6, 2023

We use the most basic features of the product We use the operation system itself. We also use it for virtualization and failover. The product is stable. The product should be less dependent on network configuration. Our technicians usually require other tools along with Failover Clustering. It…

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Barry Liou

Project Manager at IDPoints Ltd.

Nov 15, 2023

We use the solution for warehouse purposes. We built an SQL server on the solution The solution has a hot-swap feature. If one of the servers fails, we’ll still have a running system. It takes a few seconds to swap to the other server. The system has no interruption and is highly available. The…

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Mahendra Reddy

Manager at Stark International

Jan 18, 2022

The most valuable features of Windows Server Failover Clustering are the ISS, failover cluster, and DC There are times when we do the system security updates and have to restart the server which is difficult because we need to wait until the end of the day or when working hours are finished.…

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Windows Server Failover Clustering market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Windows Server Failover Clustering in the High Availability Clustering category stands at 31.8%, marking a decrease of 16.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"The solution switches over to another server in case the server goes down."
"The product is stable."
"Some of the advantages, are it can give you the ability to choose."

Room for Improvement

"The tool's pricing is high."
"The product should be less dependent on network configuration."
"The stability is good, except for when something crashes or shuts down unexpectedly, then it can be a bit difficult to reestablish the service in a stable state."

Pricing

"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."
"So if you acquire the Windows server license, you will also get all of the Windows services licenses."
"We are on an annual license to use this solution."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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