About the Failover Cluster APIs
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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