I've been anti-cluster for a very long time. "the only good cluster is a single node" -Ed | I have always agreed with him
Lately I have been building Clusters and putting VM's on them; I am starting to feel that that is the best way to do it. Your Cluster becomes a hardware pool with redundancy that you can place virtual machines on. You can optimize the hardware pool resource allocation to the virtuals on the fly; adding and removing ram and what not as needed. It makes it very simple to add more hardware to your servers, you just add another cluster node and move the VM to the new hardware, takes minutes in the users eyes. No need to migrate or fiddle with server names and IP address and crap like we have to do on dedicated hardware. ~2000$ for an 8 proc server with 16GB or ram, and ~2000$ for Windows server 2008 enterprise ( comes with 4 VM server cals, for 6k you can run datacenter and have unlimited VM's) to add a node that can support 1-10+ VM's depending on what you need. Well you have to storage in there. I just build a 4TB NAS running open filer ( 8 x 1tb drives in raid 0+1 for I/O) for like 3500$ or something. I am starting to like clusters, just not clusters but I still don't like clustered Exchange ~Kevinm WLKMMAS powered by 3Sharp<http://www.3sharp.com/>, Always WLKMMAS<http://www.wlkmmas.org/> What is your Zombie Plan? From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:17 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Failover Product.. Yeah, well, I'm anti-cluster where Exchange is concerned. But all about recommending SCR. Regards, Michael B. Smith MCSE/Exchange MVP http://TheEssentialExchange.com From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 4:49 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT: Exchange Failover Product.. I am all about your Direction. Exchange 2007 sounds like a much better solution, no offence to Stu... <insert self promotion bit that made me laugh> We had a customer ask us for references for an Exchange engagement today. As part of the reference package we sent them an Amazon book list. Out of 5 people on my team, four of us have published more than two books (Mostly about Microsoft Stuff) with our names as the author on them, and the fifth is working to get his first book out with his name on it. Also four of the 5 of us are MVPS. The customer seems to be ok with our references. </insert self promotion made me laugh> ~Kevinm WLKMMAS powered by 3Sharp<http://www.3sharp.com/>, Always WLKMMAS<http://www.wlkmmas.org/> What is your Zombie Plan? From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:49 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange Failover Product.. Going in a completely different direction here. How about Exchange 2007 with CCR? For the price of the upgrade you get your redundancy and the upgrade. From: Chyka, Robert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:50 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange Failover Product.. Hi Everyone, I'm looking for a Exchange 2003 failover software product. Years ago I used Double Take at another job and wanted ot see if that was the way to go. Basically I want to put another exchange server at another site and have that box take over if the main exchange server ever goes down or has issues etc. we currently have only one exchange box. Any help is appreciated... Thanks.. Btw we have a 50mbit mpls connection between sites.. ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
