Configuring a Windows clustered environment

You can configure an IBM Spectrum® Protect server for Windows in a Microsoft failover cluster environment. Windows cluster environments consist of components such as IBM Spectrum Protect servers, hardware, and software. When these components are connected to the same disk system, downtime is minimized.

Microsoft software helps configure, monitor, and control applications and hardware components that are deployed on a Windows cluster. The administrator uses the Microsoft Cluster Administrator interface and IBM Spectrum Protect to designate cluster arrangements and define the failover pattern.

IBM Spectrum Protect supports tape failover for a cluster environment by using a Fibre or SCSI connection. Although Microsoft failover clusters do not support the failover of tape devices, the failover configuration can be monitored through the Microsoft Cluster Administrator interface after it is set up through IBM Spectrum Protect.