13.0 Preparing for Windows Clusters Protection

PlateSpin Protect supports the protection of a Microsoft Windows cluster’s business services. The supported Microsoft Windows cluster operating systems are:

  • Windows Server 2016

  • Windows Server 2012 R2

  • Windows Server 2008 R2

  • Windows Server 2003 R2

For more information, see Clusters in Section 1.1.1, Supported Windows Workloads.

NOTE:The Windows cluster management software provides the failover and failback control for the resources running on its cluster nodes. This document refers to this action as a cluster node failover or a cluster node failback.

The PlateSpin Server provides the failover and failback control for the protected workload that represents the cluster. This document refers to this action as a Platespin failover or a PlateSpin failback.