Why run a cluster? A cluster does nothing to mitigate a site level disaster, and you still have the problem of database corruption to deal with. Build your installation with fault tolerant hardware and you should have little to zero downtime.
John H. Matteson, Jr. Systems Administrator/ITT Systems Forward Operating Base Orgun-E Afghanistan DSN - 318 431 8001 VoSIP - (308) 431 - 0000 Iridium SatPhone - 717.633.3823 Roshain Mobile - 079 - 736 - 3832 "In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American... There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag.. We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Teddy Roosevelt; 1907 -----Original Message----- From: Jason Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 11:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007 Cluster I have a customer interested in migrating their Windows 2003/Exchange 2003 FE/BE environment into a W2K8/E2K7 Cluster (for the mailboxes only). As this is not my usual area of expertise, I would appreciate any advice you have to offer. My thoughts are that we need two new servers to make up the CCR cluster and the E2K7 MBOX servers. From what I can tell, CCR is not a Windows cluster, but an Exchange thing, so I don't need to worry about quorums and the like. The existing FE would be upgraded to an E2K7 CAS. I guess my question is, what happens to the other roles? There are only 500 users or so and things run really well on two servers now. They aren't really interested in an Edge server, but obviously the Hub Transport role (and maybe an internal CAS) needs to go somewhere. They can run on the CCR, right? Thanks for your help! Jason Tierney, MCITP Vice President, Consulting Services Corporate Network Services "Count on Us" 20010 Fisher Ave, Suite E Poolesville, MD 20837 direct: 240-425-4441 | main: 301.948.8077 | fax: 301.349.2518 http://www.cornetser.com <http://www.cornetser.com> Best Place to Work, Alliance for Workplace Excellence - 2006, 2007, 2008 ...ask me how to better manage your IT costs with cid:image001.jpg@01C7A23F.5BB079C0 ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~
