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Can an MSCS cluster be built from servers that use Digital Alpha processors?

April 26, 2017Alpha built cluster digital mscs processors servers

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Can an MSCS cluster be built from servers that use Digital Alpha processors?

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Yes. Windows NT Server Enterprise Edition is available for both Intel and Alpha processors. Digital has already validated several cluster configurations for MSCS using Alpha-based servers. Note that MSCS does not permit mixing Intel-based and Alpha-based servers in the same cluster. This is because there are some differences in the on-disk format used by each type of processor, so MSCS would not be able to failover disks from one to the other.