--- "Shevill, Mark M SITI-ITIBCE22" > Has anyone ever heard of Cold Clustering and if so > can someone please > explain to me what it is. Or point me in the > direction of what it is. Also found this: In a cold failover cluster configuration, an application running on one cluster node is transparently migrated to another cluster node. During this migration, clients accessing the service on the cluster see a momentary outage and may need to reconnect once the failover is complete. on http://www.tju.cn/docs/oas90400/manage.904/b12118/glos.htm Try searching on "cold cluster failover". Webster