Differences between DCNT and MSCS
Here’s a quick summary of the differences between DCNT and MSCS so that you can decide which product best meets your customer’s needs.
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Cost | $995 per server and $1990 per | $4,000.00/server (includes |
| cluster plus the cost of NT 4.0 | NT) |
| Standard Edition for each | High cost, high availability |
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| solution for a Windows NT | |
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| Upgrade price for customers is | client/server environment |
| $390 | across LANs |
| Low cost, high availability |
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| solution for a Windows NT |
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| client/server environment |
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Market segment | Entry level , low to mid range | Enterprise level, mid to high |
| Great as a pilot to try clusters | range |
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Architecture | Proprietary | Industry accepted standard |
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Overall cluster experience | Delivering clusters for the past | None |
| 15 years |
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Windows NT cluster experience | Delivering clusters on | Delivering clusters on |
| Windows NT 18 months before | Windows NT since |
| MSCS with a total of 7,000 | November 1997 |
| DCNT licenses |
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Client support | Windows NT 4.x, 3.51 | Windows NT 4.x |
| Windows for Workgroups 3.11 | Windows 95 |
| Windows 95 |
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Runs on NTS 4.x Standard Edition | Yes | No |
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Runs on NTS/E 4.x Enterprise Edition | No | Yes |
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API to make applications | No | Yes for all BackOffice |
for failover support |
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Generic application failover via | Yes | No, but can use API |
scripting |
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NTFS failover | Yes | Yes |
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Failover of applications based on IP | Yes | Yes |
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File shares failover | Yes | Yes |
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Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 failover | Yes – Standard Edition | Yes |
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