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When to use Failover Shared Folder
Failover Share Folder is designed for network drive sharing
on the cluster server.
If you have drives or folders shared out for network usage
(through Windows "map network drive"), you will need
to setup this configuration to ensure the drives or folders to
be properly shared out on the Secondary server when the Failover
occurs.
- Typical applications of Failover Shared Folder
Web server and File server are the typical examples in need
of shared
folders. IT personnel may need to access the web
site remotely for web page
updating. Network clients of a file server may nee
to get a shared folder for local use for high convenience and
efficiency.
For these reasons, shared folders failover can guarantee
non-interruption of works and no loss of data.
