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Supporting the Microsoft Cluster Service (MSCS)

 

This information applies to WebSphere MQ for Windows only.

The 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.

MSCS supports failover of virtual servers, which correspond to applications, Web sites, print queues, or file shares (including their disk spindles, files, IP addresses, and so on).

Failover is the process by which MSCS detects a failure in an application on one computer in the cluster, and shuts down the disrupted application in an orderly manner, transfers its state data to the other computer, and re-initiates the application there.

This chapter introduces MSCS clusters and describes setting up MSCS support in the following sections:

• Introducing MSCS clusters

• Set up WebSphere MQ for MSCS clustering

Then tells you how to configure WebSphere MQ for MSCS clustering, in the following sections:

• Creating a queue manager for use with MSCS

• Moving a queue manager to MSCS storage

• Putting a queue manager under MSCS control

• Removing a queue manager from MSCS control

And then gives some useful hints on using MSCS with WebSphere MQ, and details the WebSphere MQ MSCS support utility programs, in the following sections:

• Hints and tips on using MSCS

• WebSphere MQ MSCS support utility programs

• Introducing MSCS clusters
  

• Set up WebSphere MQ for MSCS clustering
  

• Creating a queue manager for use with MSCS
  

• Moving a queue manager to MSCS storage
  

• Putting a queue manager under MSCS control
  

• Removing a queue manager from MSCS control
  

• Hints and tips on using MSCS
  

• WebSphere MQ MSCS support utility programs
  

 

Parent topic:

Configuring WebSphere MQ

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