Creating and Configuring a Highly Available Print Server Under Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Using a Server Cluster

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Summary

This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating and configuring a highly available print server on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition operating systems. These print servers use a typical, single quorum device, multi-node server cluster that uses a shared disk.

A server cluster is a group of independent servers working collectively and running the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS). Server clusters provide high availability, failback, scalability, and manageability for resources and applications. Using server clusters allows client access to applications and resources in the event of failures and planned outages. If one of the servers in the cluster is unavailable because of a failure or maintenance requirements, resources and applications move to other available cluster nodes. Using server clusters does not guarantee non-stop operation, but does provide sufficient availability for most mission-critical applications. The cluster service can monitor applications and resources designed to work in a clustered environment and automatically recognize and recover from many failure conditions. This provides flexibility in managing the workload within a cluster. It also improves overall system availability.

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