It completely depends on the budget that youwould(could) have for a project like this and the corporate definition of the services that would be required to a Hot Site DR situation. You mentioned Exchange and file sharing as the two most important so that answers one side, what do you/your company deem as cost-effective? Would 25k be the range, or is 250k or 2.5mil a reasonable number.
How immediate does the transfer from production site to DR site need to be? Does it need to be instant or is a lag of a few hours or even a day acceptable? Phil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan DeStefano Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2004 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Hot Spare Site I have been given the task of coming up with some strategies for creating a physical hot spare site for our headquarters for disaster recovery. Not having done this before, I am not sure where to begin. The two major resources that need to be replicated are our file shares and our Exchange server. All other company data, web applications, Web sites, etc are at colocation sites. Does anyone have any suggestions on the best and most cost-effective way(s) to accomplish this? A good bulk of our users can perform their jobs remotely via terminal services temporarily if need be. Could a terminal server farm work effectively using primarily what's built into windows (terminal services and load balancing), or would Citrix be the only solution. I would greatly appreciate any help. _________________________ Daniel DeStefano PC Support Specialist IAG Research 345 Park Avenue South, 12th Floor New York, NY 10010 T. 212.871.5262 F. 212.871.5300 www.iagr.net <http://www.iagr.net/> Measuring Ad Effectiveness on Television The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be privileged and is intended for the exclusive use of the above named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s), you are expressly prohibited from copying, distributing, disseminating, or in any other way using any of the information contained within this communication. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by telephone 212.871.5262 or by response via e-mail. List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
