This section describes the architecture of failover clusters, and the Failover Cluster APIs.
The API Sets
The Failover Cluster APIs consist of the Failover Cluster API, and three specialized APIs:
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Failover Cluster API
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The primary set of programming elements that you can use to write applications and services that use or manage failover clusters.
- Architecture Overview: About the Failover Cluster API.
- Programming Tasks: Using the Failover Cluster APIs.
- Reference information: Failover Cluster API Reference.
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Failover Cluster Automation Server
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An API that allows you to use a scripting language to develop a remote application that administers failover clusters.
- Programming Tasks: Using the Failover Cluster Automation Server.
- Reference information: Failover Cluster Automation Server Reference.
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Failover Cluster Provider
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A WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) provider that manages failover clusters.
- Reference information: Failover Cluster Provider Reference.
- WMI information: Windows Management Instrumentation.
In this section
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Describes the structure and components of failover clusters.
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Describes the types of applications and services in failover clustering environments, and how they interact with the Failover Cluster APIs.
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Describes the structure and components of the Failover Cluster API.
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