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Use the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS)

 

Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) enables you to connect servers into a cluster, giving higher availability of data and applications, and making it easier to manage the system. MSCS can automatically detect and recover from server or application failures.

It is important not to confuse clusters in the MSCS sense with WebSphere MQ clusters. The distinction is:

WebSphere MQ clusters

are groups of two or more queue managers on one or more computers, providing automatic interconnection, and allowing queues to be shared amongst them for load balancing and redundancy.

MSCS clusters

are groups of computers, connected together and configured in such a way that, if one fails, MSCS performs a failover, transferring the state data of applications from the failing computer to another computer in the cluster and reinitiating their operation there.

Supporting the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS) provides detailed information on how to configure your WebSphere MQ for Windows system to use MSCS.

 

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