Failover cluster for BizTalk 2010

Hi friends,
I need to understand step by step configuration for failover for biztalk 2010.
use of failover cluster manager from windows os and how its working from biztalk.
Please do share with me the right url.
Thanks all.

Similar question was asked recently in our forum:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/18239da7-74f2-45a7-b984-15f1b3f27535/biztalk-clustering?forum=biztalkgeneral#4074a082-8459-420f-8e99-8bab19c8fba2
White paper from Microsoft on this context shall you with step-by-step guidance of failover cluster for BizTalk 2010.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=2290
Also refer this blog where authors in series of his post guides with the steps required:
Part 1: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment – Preparations
Part 2: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment–Domain Controller Installation
Part 3: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment – SQL & BizTalk Active Directory Accounts
Part 4: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment – Prepping our SQL & BizTalk Failover Clusters
Part 5: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment – SQL Server 2008r2 Failover Cluster
Part 6: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment–BizTalk 2010 Failover Cluster Creation
Part 7 – BizTalk High Availability Server Environment –BizTalk 2010 Installation, Configuration
and Clustering
Par 8 - Adding Network Load balancing to our High Availability Environment
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Unfortunately, the available information is not enough to have a clear view of the occurred behavior from the cluster perspective. Please offer us
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http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/980054
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Hi Steve,
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The SQL servers themselves will be running a few System Center databases, EPO, Exchange, Lync, and a few more smaller products (different instances will be used as per best practice). However, there will be under 10 users in total in the environment, so
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Still, for a lab environment with 10 users, I can't really imagine that being too much an issue to the point where I'd actually notice any issues - happy for someone to tell me otherwise.
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networking on the iSCSI target server cluster).

No problem with running your environment on ESX because you are familiar with it. But one of the reasons Hyper-V is taking market share from VMware is because the old FUD that VMware used to throw around has all been debunked. Organizations realize
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3) "One throat to choke" in terms of support for both hypervisor OS and guest VMs OS
4) MUCH wider HCL for Hyper-V compared to what VMware has
5) Ability to control "kind of" Windows from Windows GUI (same happened before with Windows NT 4.0 takes over NetWare 4.x)
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Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster (Hyper-V) Event Id 1196

Hi All,
I just installed Failover Cluster for Hyper-V on windows server 2012 with 2 nodes. I got following error event id 1196.
reCreated / deleted Cluster Host A record on DNS and nothing happened.
Any suggestion?
There is similar topic but it couldnt help
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverClustering/thread/2ad0afaf-8d86-4f16-b748-49bf9ac447a3/
Regards

Hi,
You may refer to this article to troubleshoot this issue;
Event ID 1196 — Network Name Resource Availability
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd354022(v=WS.10).aspx
Check the following:
Check that on the DNS server, the record for the Network Name resource still exists. If the record was accidentally deleted, or was scavenged by the DNS server, create it again, or arrange to have a network administrator create it.
Ensure that a valid, accessible DNS server has been specified for the indicated network adapter or adapters in the cluster.
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Failover Cluster in a box

Hi,
I'm in the process of building a test environment which requires a failover cluster for a SQL Server Always on configuration of 2 DB nodes. I have a single Windows 2012 R2 host server with Hyper-V installed and my guest OS's configured using local storage
on this server.
In order to create the guest failover cluster, I need to create a Quorum drive - which needs to be shared between the two DB nodes. Using only this physical host server and it's local storage, is this possible to achieve?
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Hi,
I'm in the process of building a test environment which requires a failover cluster for a SQL Server Always on configuration of 2 DB nodes. I have a single Windows 2012 R2 host server with Hyper-V installed and my guest OS's configured using local storage
on this server.
In order to create the guest failover cluster, I need to create a Quorum drive - which needs to be shared between the two DB nodes. Using only this physical host server and it's local storage, is this possible to achieve?
I believe that options for creating a shared VHDX disc are to host it on a CSV or a Scale out file server, but both of these seem to require the creation of a cluster themselves, which will require a Quorum disc on shared storage itself!
Thanks,
David
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/hh127064.aspx
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