we're actually using Windows Load Balancing and have had no problems so far with it,
jb On 10/24/05, Emmet McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We originally spec'd a SAN but unfortunately had the budget cut out from > under us. It looks like we'll be doing 2 hardware loadbalanced servers > attached with scsi to a dell powervault using windows enterprise cluster > mode with cf7 enterprise. It's fairly affordable at just over 10k for a 3TB > powervault array including the external perc cards for the servers. The > only real downside is it can only handle 2 servers and will never be able to > scale past 3TB. > > E > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Beynon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:30 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: WIN2003 ENT cluster mode? > > we run win2k3 enterprise for hosting fileshares for all our webfarms - > each node has a fibre card in it accessing dedicated disks on a SAN. > We have two disk resources, intranet and internet. Rather than having > a redunant node in the cluster one node has the intranet resource > disks attached to it whilst the other has the internet disks - should > either node fail then the disk move over (it takes approximately 60 > seconds to happen) to the other node but this way you don't have a box > sitting there doing nothing.. > > Each node in the web farm win2k3 standard then runs cf enterprise (2 > instances) with IIS mapped to the clustered fileshare - running in > production for over 6 months no, zero downtime. > > jb > > On 10/24/05, Emmet McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is anyone running W2003 Enterprise in cluster mode with their CFMX7? We > > have an application that requires 2TB of storage and were thinking of > > running it with an attached scsi powervault from Dell. We'll need win > > enterprise in order to share the volume. I just wanted to make sure there > > wasn't any caveats before we spend the cash on the setup. > > > > If anyone has any other large storage solutions I'd be interested in > hearing > > that as well. > > > > Emmet > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:222160 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
