Re: How to provide fail-over capability for servers?

2007-10-30 Thread Steve Bertrand
I will have 3 net-facing servers which must be available 24/7. I had planned to have an additional box located in a different building on the same site (in case of part power-outage) that will run VMware server and host all the fail-over servers. Is it safe to assume that both boxes, albeit

Re: How to provide fail-over capability for servers?

2007-10-30 Thread Bob Johnson
It depends on what type of services the servers offer. Mail servers, web servers, file servers, DHCP servers? SMTP (the mail protocol) for instance has built-in provisions for automatic failover. - Bob On 10/29/07, Stephen Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm completely new to this so some of

How to provide fail-over capability for servers?

2007-10-29 Thread Stephen Allen
I'm completely new to this so some of my ideas may sound ludicrous... please put me right where necessary! I will have 3 net-facing servers which must be available 24/7. I had planned to have an additional box located in a different building on the same site (in case of part power-outage)