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How to Create Failback
Policies
In this article, we show you how to set up Failback policies so that each
node in the Cluster has a group “assigned” to it, referred to as an
Active/Active configuration. This is beneficial in the case of a File and
Print Cluster (or Cluster with two print spoolers). The reason for this is
so that you can manually distribute the load out across multiple nodes in
the cluster to take better advantage of available resources.
Failover Clustering has the ability to define a specific node in the cluster
as the preferred node that is to own a particular group. If for any reason
this node fails or goes offline, you can set the Cluster service to
automatically move these groups back to the node that you want to. This is
useful in statically load-balancing the nodes in your cluster. This is
referred to as Failover and Failback policies.
The first thing to differentiate is between what a “possible” owner and a
“preferred” owner is. Possible Owner defines whether a resource is ever able
to failover to a specific node. Use extreme caution in defining Possible
Owners because defining a possible owner for a single resource will affect
the failover for the entire group. This is defined under the properties of
the individual resources. If you bring up the properties of a group, you
will see a Preferred Owners box. As a default, this is left blank.
When you configure a group to automatically failback to the preferred node,
you specify whether you want the group to failback as soon as the preferred
node is available or to failback only during specific hours that you define.
This option is useful if you want the failback to occur after peak business
hours, or if you want to make sure the preferred node is able to support the
group when it does come back online. The “Preferred Owner” of a group must
be specified for failback to occur.
The preferred owner is the node that one configures to
(under normal operating circumstances) to host the group. Furthermore, on a
resource level, the resource must be configured to have both nodes as
"Possible Owners" for the resource to failover.
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