Perry,

Thanks for your response. I will definitely look into your guide for creating a virtual sandpit.

Regarding the restart policies, I should have presented a more comprehensive question. The other two options in the same dialog area are a source of confusion to me also. The help text explaining these are:

If restart is unsuccessful, fail over all resources in this service or application

Use this box to control the way the Cluster service responds if the maximum restarts fail:

Select this box if you want the Cluster service to respond by failing the clustered service or application over to another node.

Clear this box if you want the Cluster service to respond by leaving this clustered service or application running on this node (even if this resource is in a failed state).

If all the restart attempts fail, begin restarting again after the specified period (hh:mm)

Select this box if you want the Cluster service to go into an extended waiting period after attempting the maximum number of restarts on the resource. Note that this extended waiting period is measured in hours and minutes. After the waiting period, the Cluster service will begin another series of restarts. This is true regardless of which node owns the clustered service or application at that time.

From these descriptions, these two options appear to be mutually exclusive, yet they are presented as check boxes such that both can be selected. I would have expected radio buttons such that only one could be selected. Would you know how these work together?

Thanks, Sean