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There are several resources that have been asked about on multiple occasions and we haven\’t really had a good definition to point you to. Well, not anymore. What I want to do with this blog is define what they are, what they do, and when they were added or removed. I am only going to cover the in-box resource types that come with Failover Clustering.

But first, I wanted to explain what a cluster \”resource\” and \”resource types\” are. Cluster resources are physical or logical entities, such as a file share, disk, or IP Address managed by the Cluster Service. The operating system does not distinguish between cluster and local resources. Resources may provide a service to clients or be an integral part of the cluster. Examples of resources would be physical hardware devices such as disk drives, or logical items such as IP addresses, network names, applications, and services.

They are the basic and smallest configurable unit managed by the Cluster Service. A resource can only run on a single node in a cluster at a time. Cluster resource types are dynamic library plug-ins. These Resource DLLs are responsible for carrying out most operations on cluster resources. A resource DLL is characterized as follows:. When the Cluster service needs to perform an operation on a resource, it sends the request to the Resource Monitor assigned to the resource.

If the Resource Monitor does not have a DLL in its process that can handle that type of resource, it uses the registration information to load the DLL associated with the resource type. It then passes the Cluster service\’s request to one of the DLL\’s entry point functions. The resource DLL handles the details of the operation so as to meet the specific needs of the resource. You can define your own resource types to provide customized support for cluster-unaware applications, enhanced support for cluster-aware applications, or specialized support for new kinds of devices.

For more information, see Creating Resource Types. All resource types that are available in a Failover Cluster can be seen by right-mouse clicking on the name of the Cluster, choosing Properties, and selecting the Resource Types tab shown below. Please keep in mind that all resource types may not show up or have access to. For example, if the Hyper-V role is not installed, the virtual machine resource types will not be available.

So enough about this, let\’s get to the resource types, when they were available and, for some, when they were last seen. Since there are multiple versions of Windows Clustering, this blog will only focus on the two latest versions Windows Server and DFS Replicated Folder dfsrclus. When creating a DFS, this resource type is configured to ensure proper replication occurs. For more information regarding this, please refer to the 3-part blog series on the topic. DHCP Service clnetres.

There can be only one instance of a resource of this type in the cluster that is, a cluster can support only one DHCP Service.

Disjoint IPv4 Address clusres. We added two IP addresses of this resource type, one for the internal network and one for the external network. Disjoint IPv6 Address clusres. Ras Cluster Resource rasclusterres. Distributed File System clusres2. Distributed Transaction Coordinator mtxclu. In this case, a transaction means a general way of structuring the interactions between autonomous agents in a distributed system.

File Server clusres2. A file share is a location on the network where clients connect to access data, including documents, programs, images, etc. File Share Witness clusres. A File Share Witness does not store cluster configuration data like a disk. It does, however, contain information about which version of the cluster configuration database is most recent. Generic Application clusres2. For example, it checks for application failure by determining whether the application\’s process still exists and takes the application offline by terminating the process.

Generic Script clusres2. Generic Service clusres2. Similar to the Generic Application resource type, the Generic Service resource type provides only the most basic functionality. If the service is running, it is presumed to be online. To provide greater functionality, you can define a custom resource type for information, see Creating Resource Types. A generic service resource type is usually used to manage a stateless service as a cluster resource, which can be failed over.

However, generic services don\’t provide much state information other than their online state, so if they have an issue that doesn\’t cause the resource to go offline, it is more difficult to detect a service failure. Generic services should only be used when all of the following conditions are true; otherwise, you should create a resource DLL. Health Service healthres. Through either Windows Admin Center or PowerShell, it displays any current faults, allowing you to easily verify the health of your deployment without looking at every entity or feature in turn.

Faults are designed to be precise, easy to understand, and actionable. Each fault contains five important fields:. IP Address clusres. When an IP Address resource is included in a group with a Network Name resource, the group can be accessed by network clients as a failover cluster instance formerly known as a virtual server. IPv6 Address clusres. When an IPv6 Address resource is included in a group with a Network Name resource, the group can be accessed by network clients as a failover cluster instance formerly known as a virtual server.

IPv6 Tunnel Address clusres2. When an IPv6 Tunnel Address resource is included in a group with a Network Name resource, the group can be accessed by network clients as a failover cluster instance formerly known as a virtual server. Microsoft iSNS isnsclusres. We would recommend not using this resource type moving forward as it is being removed from the product.

MSMQ mqclus. Applications send messages to queues and read messages from queues. MSMQTriggers mqtgclus. These triggers can be used to define business rules that can be invoked when a message arrives at the queue without doing any additional programming. Application developers no longer must write any infrastructure code to provide this kind of message-handling functionality.

Network File System nfsres. For a give network name resource there can be only one NFS resource in a resource group. The dependent disk resource hosts one or more of NFS shared paths. The shares hosted on a NFS resource are scoped to the dependent network name resources. Shares scoped to one network name are not visible to clients that mount using other network names or node names residing on the same cluster.

Network Name clusres. When included in a group with an IP Address resource, a Network Name resource provides an identity to the role, allowing the role to be accessed by network clients as a Failover Cluster instance.

Distributed Network Name clusres. Client connectivity to this type name is reliant on DNS round robin. Scale Out File Server clusres. The Distributed Network Name is discussed previously. Physical Disk clusres. Some groups may contain one or more Physical Disk resources as dependencies for other resources in the group. On a Storage Spaces Direct cluster, the disks are local to each of the nodes. The PA appears in the packets on the network that are exchanged with the server running Hyper-V that is hosting network virtualized virtual machine s.

The PA is visible on the physical network, but not to the virtual machines. Storage Pool clusres. It allows for the creation and deletion of storage spaces virtual disks.

Storage QoS Policy Manager clusres. Storage Replica wvrres. This resource type enables you to create stretch failover clusters that span two sites, with all nodes staying in sync. A Stretch Cluster allows configuration of computers and storage in a single cluster, where some nodes share one set of asymmetric storage and some nodes share another, then synchronously or asynchronously replicate with site awareness.

By stretching clusters, workloads can be run in multiple datacenters for quicker data access by local proximity users and applications, as well as better load distribution and use of compute resources. Task Scheduler clusres.

Clustered tasks are not created or shown in Failover Cluster Manager. Virtual Machine vmclusres. By grouping virtual machines together, managing the \”group\” is much easier than all of the virtual machines individually. Virtual Machine Configuration vmclusres. Virtual Machine Replication Broker vmclusres. It acts the point of contact for any replication requests, and can query into the associated cluster database to decide which node is the correct one to redirect VM specific events such as Live Migration requests etc.

 
 

 

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Upgrades to modernize your operational database infrastructure. Digital Innovation. But now, new levels of fault tolerance are introduced with chassis, rack and site domains. As my passion resides inside data centers, The best way to find me is to ping a server. Thus, we recommend upgrading the previous versions of Failover Cluster to the new Windows Server Failover Cluster where you can experience the advantage of all new features. Create and manage autoscalers.