MS Cluster is a subset of VCS need one HB - uses IP, use static IPs, on VLAN/hub/switch, 10 hdx need one Public (can team) - use static IPs not DHCP can use volumes versus drive letters supports spool printer driver failover (replicated) (should load drivers on all nodes before a failover, otherwise in a failover it will have to take time to add printer drivers before making resource online) If using termserver, the drive mapping is static, must relogin to see drive changes (add/delete) as the mapping is created on login clusdiag.exe [/create | /add | /evict [force]] h/w cluster compatability microsoft.com/windows/catalog/ msreport microsoft.com search for mpsreport gather script - captures cluster info and lots more save output to: \windows\mps reports\cluster\report\*.cab most-important-file: cluster*information.txt we also get a tool that will do a diff on two or more systems by looking throught the OS (patches, s/w, configs, etc). This is a free tool - because we are a platinum customer (Dimitry has the package) cluster.exe /prop cluster.exe /listnetpri cluster.exe [net] [/prop] cluster.exe [res] [/listdep, /listowners] cluster.exe [group] [/prop]