My current gig has a cluster and I am in process of planning to make it cluster-no-more. I hate managing the fscker... Totally not worth it, but Dell suckered the company into thinking they needed it...
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Michael B. Smith < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Clusters allow a well-managed server farm to go from 99.9% availability > to 99.99% availability. > > > > Emphasis on "well-managed". > > > > Those are, quite frankly, few and far between. In most shops that I've > seen, clusters actually reduce availability. > > > > These days, you can install Exchange, configure it a little bit, set up > your backups, and it'll just hum along for you for months and months without > requiring you to touch it. Run a patch install at 3am on Sunday morning once > a month, and you're done. > > > > If you buy good hardware for the server – you'll probably not have to > touch it except when a disk needs replacing. And of course, you have > SMART/SCSI monitoring, so you know when that happens, you pick up a phone > and order a disk, it's hot-swappable and auto-rebuild. Or you have it in > inventory because e-mail is a critical service. You're done. > > > > No frickin' way you get off that easy with a cluster. It requires a LOT > more care and feeding. In certain (very rare) circumstances, I can believe > that that expert care and feeding is worth 0.09% increased availability. But > honestly, I don't think I've EVER seen one. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > MCSE/Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> > > > > *From:* Barsodi.John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *Sent:* Tuesday, May 13, 2008 5:32 PM > > *To:* MS-Exchange Admin Issues > *Subject:* RE: Exchange Failover Product.. > > > > I can understand Anti-SCC, but why would you be Anti-CCR? > > > > *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 <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 ~
