I love these questions :) I'm using a SAN here but i guess the principles are the same.
Yes, to use clustering in Windows you'll need Windows Enterprise server. Here's how i have my environment setup. 2 x Windows Standard + CF Standard (Intranet) Load Balanced 2 x Windows Standard + CF Enterprise (Internet) Load Balanced 2 x Windows Enterprise (fileshare) connected via Fibre to SAN Clustered So, the Fileshares talk to the SAN via Fibre etc etc....and the fileshares are then presented as NT shares to the webservers and mapped to the IIS virtual servers. What I've then got is the internet cluster resources active on one cluster node whilst the internet resources are active on the other node thereby ensuring that in normal day to day operation both fileshare boxes are in use and one isn't sitting dormant. jb On 1/25/06, Emmet McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's one for the server geeks out there. > > We have a CF app that uses a high volume of storage. It's finally outgrown > our current storage capability within a server. The app is basically a > delivery system for digital assets. You request an image or images in a > specific format/size and colorspace and it converts them. For single images > it's on demand, for entire image collections it creates a zip for download. > The original uploaded asset is never modified or rewritten. > > We recently acquired a Powervault S220 SCSI NAS and 2 new servers for > failover. The NAS has 3TB of storage available. > > From my understanding... In order for the 2 servers to access the same > volume on the attached scsi storage we'll require Windows 2003 Enterprise in > cluster mode. Unfortunately I'm not so familiar with Windows enterprise > cluster mode. I'm interested in knowing if anyone else has a similar setup. > Are you using windows cluster in active/active or active/passive? > > I'd love a true load balanced setup but I'm unsure if there would be file > locking issues with 2 servers accessing the same volume. This application > does a lot of file reads. So that would leave me with active/passive > essentially having only one server in use with a second on standby. > > Then there's the question of CF. Since this setup is only running one > site/application. What is the best cf setup assuming were already setup in > a windows cluster? We have CFMX 7.1 Enterprise. > > Thanks for your thoughts. > > > Emmet > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:230465 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
