Is a cluster the most cost effective redundancy method for windows server 2003?

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Published on 2010-03-26T18:24:23Z Indexed on 2010/03/26 18:33 UTC
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We had a server with bad ram which caused a long outage while they figured it out and our client facing apps had to go down for a while. We are coming up with a solution for instant fail-over but are not sure what the most cost effective method would be. Is a windows server cluster the best method for this? Also note we are using Parallels Virtuozzo if that makes any difference here. We found Parallels has a documented method for setting this up but it said it required a Domain Controller as well as a Fiber connection to shared storage, is all that really needed?

Thanks.

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