Upgrade to 2003 and deploy clustering with a well designed SAN. Also maybe a 3rd question should have been what is my budget for this.


From: "Bridges, Samantha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Failover Servers AND Restore/Recovery Server Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 09:03:08 -0500

Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Exchange 2000
Dual Processor Compaq ML350
25 GB IS


Hello All.


My management wants a high availability solution put in place that
includes both a failover solution AND a recovery solution.  A failover
for hardware failures and a recovery for IS corruption etc...  If the
primary IS corrupts than most likely the secondary will corrupt also.

I have been looking at SteelEye and Neverfail for a failover solution
(any comments on these two companies would be appreciated).  Have been
having a problem getting neverfail to work and will start testing the
SteelEye next week sometime.

As for the recovery server I am interested in your thoughts.  I asked my
management two questions, 1)How long are you willing to wait for
services to be restored? And 2)How much data are you willing to lose?
Their answer to those questions were, 1) 15 minutes and 2) NONE.

Ok...with those questions being answered, does anyone in this forum have
a solution in place that can meet the request of my management?  They
want another solution in place in case the failover "fails".  Is the
answer to have a third server that just sits there (pre built of course)
ready to go incase the failover solution falls short?  I do nightly
online backups of Exchange and would need time to restore the backup on
the recovery server plus add the transaction logs in.  This will take
more than the 15 minute allotment.

Any ideas or comments would be helpful.

Thanks,


Samantha Bridges Macomb Intermediate School District

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