We originally spec'd a SAN but unfortunately had the budget cut out from under us. It looks like we'll be doing 2 hardware loadbalanced servers attached with scsi to a dell powervault using windows enterprise cluster mode with cf7 enterprise. It's fairly affordable at just over 10k for a 3TB powervault array including the external perc cards for the servers. The only real downside is it can only handle 2 servers and will never be able to scale past 3TB.
E -----Original Message----- From: John Beynon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 11:30 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: WIN2003 ENT cluster mode? we run win2k3 enterprise for hosting fileshares for all our webfarms - each node has a fibre card in it accessing dedicated disks on a SAN. We have two disk resources, intranet and internet. Rather than having a redunant node in the cluster one node has the intranet resource disks attached to it whilst the other has the internet disks - should either node fail then the disk move over (it takes approximately 60 seconds to happen) to the other node but this way you don't have a box sitting there doing nothing.. Each node in the web farm win2k3 standard then runs cf enterprise (2 instances) with IIS mapped to the clustered fileshare - running in production for over 6 months no, zero downtime. jb On 10/24/05, Emmet McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone running W2003 Enterprise in cluster mode with their CFMX7? We > have an application that requires 2TB of storage and were thinking of > running it with an attached scsi powervault from Dell. We'll need win > enterprise in order to share the volume. I just wanted to make sure there > wasn't any caveats before we spend the cash on the setup. > > If anyone has any other large storage solutions I'd be interested in hearing > that as well. > > Emmet > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:222074 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
