I'm fairly certain this is a violation of both licensures. However, you CAN use your single SQL license to run on two boxes provided you configure them in a passive cluster. However your non-clustered fail over solution does not meet their definition of fail-over only.
Microsoft has made a concession that if your implementation is purely as passive fail over, then they don't hit you twice for licensing. They admit that since only one license can actually be available at any given moment, they can't charge you for 2. In honesty, I was surprised when our M$ rep told us this ;). Perhaps Macromedia should consider allowing this when installed on OS enforced passive clusters as well ;). Trey Rouse -----Original Message----- From: John Innit [mailto:harmony@;mtv.net] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 8:22 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: is my redundancy solution a violation of licensing terms? I'm running a site on CF 4.5 on Win2K, IIS 5.0 and SQL 2000. We have 2 servers. Web server runs IIS 5.0, CF 4.5 and the DB Server runs SQL 2000 I want to set up a redundancy precaution where I install SQL Server on the Web server and CF and IIS on the DB server so that in the event of a hardware failure on either of the machines, I'll still be able to get the site up and running quickly. Does this violate the standard licensing agreements? I'm not sure what licenses we have, but I will check with my tech people, I just want to know if this is a viable option and if not can anyone suggest a way we can have a backup solution in the event of a hardware failure on either of my servers? Thanks for your help. "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. Innit ? - Salvador Dali + Co. (1904-1989) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting.
