At 04:32 PM 5/29/01 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>I was wondering if Dnews is cluster-aware, under Microsoft NT/W2K Cluster
>Server.
>If not, then would it be a difficult exercise to make it cluster aware ?
>
>Has anyone any experience of using Dnews in this configuration, or are
>people just using huge lumps of non-clustered hardware. Any comments (Jerry
>of newsfeeds.com perhaps ?)
No it's not cluster aware, however it does know about shared disks so if
you tell
it that it's running on shared disks, and tell it one system is a master
and the others
are readonly slaves it will work and do pretty much what you would expect.
Search for 'readonly' in the manual for the settings you need.
The gotcha's are:
1) If bandwidth to the shared disks is limited performance will be
limited by that.
2) Your reliability is not doubled as it is with two system
sitting next to each other
with their own disks as most failures are likely to affect both
systems equally.
3) I presume the nt clustering will to some extent fail over
automatically, this feature
is not supported in any automatic sense, but could be achieved
manually probably.
ChrisP.
