On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:05 PM, William Herrin wrote:
You rarely need to fail over to the passive system.
And management will never, ever let you do a full-up test, nor will
they allow you to spend the money to build a scaled-up system which
can handle the full load, because they can't stand the thought of
hardware sitting there gathering dust.
Concur 100%.
Active/passive is an obsolete 35-year-old mainframe paradigm, and it
deserves to die the death. With modern technology, there's just
really no excuse not to go active/active, IMHO.
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