Windows 2008 Failover Cluster services introduced some improvements over it’s predecessor MSCS. A 500ms roundtrip UDP heartbeat and residing on the same LAN/Subnet is no longer required which improves the ability to stretch the nodes greater distances for a true geographically dispersed cluster. There is still a shared disk requirement but with products like GeoCluster that allows each node to share and own their own copy of the data, the GeoCluster solution provides the ability to stretch the cluster nodes across farther distances for not only for Double-Take Availability but also disaster recovery.
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