Yep, that's been the case with all of my SCR deployments to date.
The only slight difference with some designs is that the standby cluster is sometimes just a single node cluster (initially, anyway) From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@theessentialexchange.com] Sent: 11 March 2009 14:54 To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Exchange 2007 SCR -- Hardware? When I recommend someone to deploy SCR, I recommend identical hardware. The general goal of SCR is fault tolerance and site resilience. The SCR hardware can't take over if it can't handle the load. IMHO. YMMV. From: 8400...@gmail.com [mailto:8400...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of jond Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 10:43 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Exchange 2007 SCR -- Hardware? For the people here using SCR in Exchange 2007 SP1, what kind of hardware are you using relative to your production exchange boxes? Are you finding that as long as you have enough hard drive space, that processor and ram don't really matter or did you simply decide to run identical hardware on both production and on the SCR server? Thanks in advance, Jon ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~