One article I read said that in an A/A situation such that you plan as if you will be running A/P and then split them up between the two nodes assigned to the A/A cluster.
Makes sense to me. Nate Couch EDS Messaging > ---------- > From: Roger Seielstad > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 09:36 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > You'd be wrong there. > > You can get the same amount of users on active/active or active/passive, > although realistically, active/passive allows for more users. > > In either case, if you're clustering identical hardware, you can either > put > all your users on one box (a/p) or half on each (a/a). In either case, > both > servers need to be able to handle the same number of users. > > The memory fragmentation issues would lead me to believe that A/P would be > more likely to support a higher number of users than A/A, on identical > hardware. > > Roger > ------------------------------------------------------ > Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE > Sr. Systems Administrator > Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity > Atlanta, GA > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:32 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > > > > No, according to the theory you can get more users on > > Active/Active because both cluster nodes are being used to do > > something useful. But if one fails, the other node better be > > able to take on the load. > > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dennis Depp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:50 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > > > > Stay away from active/active. Go Active/passive instead. You can get > > more users on Active/Passive. > > > > Denny > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Imran Iqbal > > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 5:36 AM > > To: Exchange Discussions > > Subject: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > > > > We are currently an Exchange 5.5 site, as part of our move to Exchange > > 2000 I am considering setting up Exchange on a 2 node Active Active > > cluster and would be interested in hearing anyone views or real world > > experiences with similar setups. Each server would have about 800 > > active users and would probably be connected to a SAN for the shared > > storage. > > > > I have heard that there were memory issues with this setup pre SP3. I > > would like to know if there are any other problems and if it is worth > > doing > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > > > Imran > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
