You can boot from SAN. Then all you have to do in a failure is move the fibers to the new box and configure the adaptors' addresses. You might be able to be back up faster than a cluster failover!
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Parker Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:46 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: secondary Exchange sever Thank you for all of your advice. I am using good hardware, raid etc. Basically, I am not look for Auto failover at this time, I am aware of double take and Failover, I am basically building a box that I can simply copy the store to, (It is backed up every 12 hours) and put into production.(Understanding of course that I will need to make the requisite network and naming changes. John Parker, MCSE IS Admin. Senior Technical Specialist Alpha Display Systems. Alpha Video 7711 Computer Ave. Edina, MN. 55435 952-896-9898 Local 800-388-0008 Watts 952-896-9899 Fax 612-804-8769 Cell 952-841-3327 Direct [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Be excellent to each other" ---End of Line--- -----Original Message----- From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 8:37 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: secondary Exchange sever Exchange doesn't support a hot failover server out of the box unless you are clustering. As someone else mentioned you could have a second server and it may have the GAL on it and PF replication, but your mailboxes wont be there and if the first server fails, the users are not going to fall over to the secondary server. Pretty much a waste IMHO. There are some 3rd party programs out there such as DoubleTake that apparently some folks are using. Not me though. If I can offer you one piece of advise, it would be to make sure you use quality hardware. Have a good RAID card and configure your drives for redundancy. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Parker Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 6:04 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: secondary Exchange sever Hey there... Exch2000 Ent on Win2000 Svr fully spacked Ok, I am willing to admit that, maybe JUST maybe, I am a [EMAIL PROTECTED] but... I am trying to create a "Backup Exchange serve in the the event of catastrophe. I have build the second one and attached it to the domain, it have a different name and a different IP. When attempting to connect to it via the outlook client ON the secondary server, The email server name in the exchange server reverts to my primary server. What am I doing wrong here. Please be kind with the flames as I slipped into a puddle of gasoline earlier and have not had time to clean up. Thank you. John Parker, MCSE IS Admin. Senior Technical Specialist Alpha Display Systems. Alpha Video _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=exchange To subscribe: http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
