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Solution Specialist at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Jun 30, 2023

The solution switches over to another server in case the server goes down.

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reviewer1279407

Systems Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Jul 15, 2020

The reliability is pretty good.

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it_user1239519

Consultant at Unisys Corporation

Dec 3, 2019

The most valuable feature is the ability to easily create clusters supporting geo-redundancy.

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it_user365145

Technical Specialist at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Jan 5, 2016

It's scalable, highly available, and is agile to handle workloads.

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Windows Server Failover Clustering Cons review quotes

Tal Adler

Engineer at Magal Solutions

Jul 6, 2023

The product should be less dependent on network configuration.

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Saad Khoudali

System Administrator at Confidential

Oct 20, 2022

The stability is good, except for when something crashes or shuts down unexpectedly, then it can be a bit difficult to reestablish the service in a stable state.

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Mahendra Reddy

Manager at Stark International

Jan 18, 2022

There are times when we do the system security updates and have to restart the server which is difficult because we need to wait until the end of the day or when working hours are finished. There are service updates that have a requirement to restart the system and it is not convenient.

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Learn what your peers think about Windows Server Failover Clustering. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2026.

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Solution Specialist at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

Jun 30, 2023

The tool's pricing is high.

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reviewer1279407

Systems Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Jul 15, 2020

They could drop the price or improve the cost of the hyper-converged component of it all. Right now, licensing is expensive and complex.

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