resource for a cluster

What is Resource for a Cluster?

Any physical or logical component that can provide a service to a network client and that can be taken offline and brought online by Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) or Windows Clustering. Resources are physical or logical entities that are managed by a node of a cluster.

MSCS supports a number of types of resources, which you can manage using the Cluster Administrator program. These resource types include the following:

• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) servers
• Distributed Transaction Coordinator
• File shares
• Generic applications such as database programs
• Generic services such as Microsoft Windows NT services
• Internet Information Services (IIS) virtual server for World Wide Web (WWW) and File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• IP addresses
• Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) Server
• Network names
• Physical disks
• Print spoolers
• Time services

Related MSCS terminology with regard to resources includes the following:

• Resource Group:
  An association of dependent or related resources running on one node of a cluster. Dependent resources require other resources in order to operate. All resources in a group move together between nodes during failover or failback operations.

   

• Resource Monitor:
  A software component of MSCS that facilitates communication between the Cluster service and application resources.