NAS is the best way I would say... You can create a NAS solution on the cheap with a server + multiple NIC cards + a few drives.... much cheaper than the store bought ready made 'products' that in essence are just the same thing with a small amount of 'management' tools...
-paris Paris Lundis Founder Areaindex, L.L.C. http://www.areaindex.com http://www.pubcrawler.com 412-292-3135 [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] [connecting people, places and things] -----Original Message----- From: "Kevin Langevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 17:44:40 -0500 Subject: RE: Load Balancing: Disk Options? > What about mapping two different drives from all three servers, and > having > your CF solution write the files to both mapped drives? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Koshy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 3:55 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Load Balancing: Disk Options? > > > Hey Guys, > > Just wondering if you can shed some advice on a couple load balancing > issues. We're moving to a 3 Server Cluster running Cold Fusion 5.0 > using a Foundry Server Iron XL. We've got the Load Balancing Part > down > and it works great. > > However, now we turn our attention to the Cold Fusion > Server...because > the site receives a lot of "files", we need some way of consolodating > the upload directory or directories and still maintain redundancy. > Also > it would be nice having to update Cold Fusion files on one server/one > place as well. > > We're using the Windows Platform so options like: > > A) Map a Drive to A Common Directory/Drive on Another Computer > B) Network Attached Storage > C) File Replication / Synchronization between Servers. > > Anyone have recommendations? Remember we want to maintain redundancy > so > mapping a drive to a single machine seems to be out. Another way > would > be to go NAS, but are there any cheap redundant NAS clustering > solutions > out there? File Replication sounds promising but I'm worried about > replication lag and stuff... > > Sincerely, > > Ben. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
