Fault tolerance for network printing


what options available provide fault tolerance network printing?  currently, our shared printers on servera.  is possible have similar shared printers on serverb , have clients automatically switch server b if server became unavailable?  we don't care load balancing as fault tolerance.  thanks post!

a failover cluster node ? (not in nlb; servers in network load balancing (nlb) failover cluster cannot used print servers in windows server 2008 )

for environments require high availability, can use failover cluster print server.  if node in cluster fails, print functionality fail on next node in cluster.  improve failover times, recommend administrator cluster force failover each node when new print drivers installed on server.  during failover, driver installation forced occur on active node.  installation of driver on each node can require several minutes. forcing installation process during maintenance make sure unplanned failovers during usual operation quick, because drivers installed on each node.


regards, philippe

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