RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-07-02 Thread Slinger, Gary
XP Pro & Win2KPro, plus some OWA. -Original Message- From: Midgley, Ian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 09:24 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? What client configurations are you thinking of supporting? We have a central

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-07-02 Thread Midgley, Ian
much better :( . Anyone got any good ideas other than Exchange 2003? -Original Message- From: Slinger, Gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 July 2003 04:33 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? (Can't resist - it's a 4-node cluster, with a pas

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-07-01 Thread Slinger, Gary
sday, July 01, 2003 6:16 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? only 16,000 users? on an 8-node cluster? -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:11 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Clusteri

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-07-01 Thread William Lefkovics
ubject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? only 16,000 users? on an 8-node cluster? -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:11 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Clustering... is it worth it? But do consider revisiting this with 2

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-07-01 Thread Fyodorov, Andrey
only 16,000 users? on an 8-node cluster? -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 8:11 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Clustering... is it worth it? But do consider revisiting this with 2003. With Microsoft running 16,000

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-30 Thread William Lefkovics
And I don't wear make up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Slinger, Gary Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 6:15 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? You're confusing me with Andi... Oh, wait -

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-30 Thread Slinger, Gary
You're confusing me with Andi... Oh, wait - wrong list. Never mind :) -Original Message- From: Erik Sojka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 08:42 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? you two kiss and make up now. > -

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-30 Thread Erik Sojka
you two kiss and make up now. > -Original Message- > From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 1:40 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? > > > You are totally right. Cochran&#

Re: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-28 Thread Glenn Corbett
orked out, they have been pretty solid. 2k3 may be a different kettle of fish. My $0.02 G. - Original Message - From: "Martin Blackstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 11:34 AM Subject: RE:

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread William Lefkovics
03 9:55 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? OK, I'll try it another way - the presentation that I heard at Tech-Ed, matched up against my notes, indicated that it was: A) 4 x 4-way servers, active, plus B) 1 x 4-way server, passive, plus C) 2 x 2-way server

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread Slinger, Gary
ly capable of basic math. 8, to my recollection, notes, and thoughts of the PPT, is wrong., -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 12:58 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? The PPT would be wrong

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread William Lefkovics
The PPT would be wrong then as 4+1+2 <> 8 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Slinger, Gary Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:45 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? The TechEd PPT was 4-1-2; other tha

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread Slinger, Gary
The TechEd PPT was 4-1-2; other than that, concur. -Original Message- From: William Lefkovics [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:21 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Clustering... is it worth it? Definitely Active/Passive. The 8-node cluster I mentioned it

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread Andy David
: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? I believe they have always recommended an Active/Active cluster. Paul Roubicheux sais the E2K3 clusters awesomely. -Original Message- From: Schneider, Bryan D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:14 PM

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread Martin Blackstone
I believe they have always recommended an Active/Active cluster. Paul Roubicheux sais the E2K3 clusters awesomely. -Original Message- From: Schneider, Bryan D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:14 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth

Re: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread William Lefkovics
MAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 6:13 PM Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? > You have the benefit of quick recovery in event of hardware failure on the server (not likely typically). But, it is really nice for maintenance where you have to apply patches, security upd

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread Andy David
Havent they recommended Active/Passive for awhile now? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schneider, Bryan D Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:14 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? You have the benefit of

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread Schneider, Bryan D
iscussions Cc: Subject: Re: Clustering... is it worth it? But do consider revisiting this with 2003. With Microsoft running 16,000 users on an 8-node cluster now. Windows2003 and Exchange2003 of course.

Re: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread William Lefkovics
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 5:04 PM Subject: RE: Clustering... is it worth it? > That's pretty much the argument against clustering. > In fact, many folks will tell you that Exchange needs much more hand holding > in a cluster. > > -Original Message- > From: MSX

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread Martin Blackstone
ering... is it worth it? Upper management here is inquiring about clustering our exchange server. We already have our PRIV, PUB and DIR on a SAN. I don't see the benefit. If the server itself fails, I can rebuild it in an hour. If the database corrupts it would have taken the cluster down to

RE: Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread Andy David
ssage- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MSX dude Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 7:50 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Clustering... is it worth it? Upper management here is inquiring about clustering our exchange server. We already have our PRIV, PUB and DIR on

Clustering... is it worth it?

2003-06-27 Thread MSX dude
Upper management here is inquiring about clustering our exchange server. We already have our PRIV, PUB and DIR on a SAN. I don't see the benefit. If the server itself fails, I can rebuild it in an hour. If the database corrupts it would have taken the cluster down too. I have searched the inter