I'm attending the MS w2k Clustering. Today is the second day.

Here's what I've learnt:

• w2k clustering consists of Network Load Balancing (NLB) and clustering proper.


• NLB comes free with w2k advance server


• clustering service is free with w2k advance server

In the OSS world, there's a lot of NLBs. LVS and its derivatives (keepalived, piranha etc) comes to mind.

However, I'm hard pressed for the clustering solution. What I've found (http://lcic.org) does not equal what MS offers.

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/Beowulf/beowulf_book/beowulf_book/node8.html has these COWs, POPs, NOWs. In that perspective, where is MS cluster?

It's a different breed, the OSS solutions, methinks.

I may have overlooked something...