Cool, thanks MBS.
- John Barsodi From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 9:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid Clustering Question - Svr 2008 As long as both servers can support the full load, you'll be fine. SCC has an identical hardware requirement. CCR does not. Regards, Michael B. Smith, MCITP:SA,EMA/MCSE/Exchange MVP My blog: http://TheEssentialExchange.com/blogs/michael Link with me at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/theessentialexchange From: Barsodi.John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 12:45 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Stupid Clustering Question - Svr 2008 I have a stupid clustering question... It's for an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster on Windows Server 2008. Can I run differing hardware on the nodes? Meaning, 1 node have Dual Socket Quad Core(Xeon 5400) and the other node has Dual Socket Dual Core(Xeon 5100 series). Everything else will be the same, disk config, ram, same HP server class. For a variant; can I run the 1 node with Dual Socket Quad Core Xeon 5300 Series(2.33Ghz) and the other with Dual Socket Quad Core Xeon 5400 Series(2.5GHz)? Again same HP Server class. I'd think option2 would be more likely than option 1 unless I disabled processing cores on the Dual Socket Quad Core in option 1. Sorry for the n00balicious question, we're just looking at cost cutting and reusing available hardware. I know MS PSS will be stingy on this so I looked up a few things and found this: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732035.aspx Under the section that talks about when to run the validation tests it has a item for "Adding a new node that uses dissimilar hardware" so that leads me to believe it is supported, as long as it passes the Failover Cluster Validation report. Along with the PSS support policy for Svr 2008 - http://support.microsoft.com/?id=943984 Nothing really specific to dissimilar hardware. Thanks, John ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
