I don't believe the latency (or reliability) would be appropriate for SRDF either. If you were using it, boot from SAN can reduce the level of work required and I have several customers[1] who are using it. The ones using it effectively test often, have excellent change control and mountains of procedural documentation to go along with it. Not a trivial undertaking for most organizations in my experience; but in the right shops, with the right level of expertise it makes for a good primary line of defense.
You might want to take a look at our EMS product to see if it might provide value. http://www.messageone.com/email-continuity/ [1] Disclaimer: I work for a HA/DR provider. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aristotle Zoulas Posted At: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 8:16 AM Posted To: swynk Conversation: Exchange 2003 Migration/Upgrade Subject: Exchange 2003 Migration/Upgrade We are currently on a single 5.5 box (in one of our two locations.) Our company has two locations about ten miles apart. The network connection is a 100mb microwave. About 50% of the users are one either side. Ultimately we would like to have an Exchange 2003 system in both locations. The natural way we are thinking is to have the mailboxes at location "B" on the "B" Exchange Server, and the mailboxes at location"A" on the "A" Exchange server. This seems fine except my management wants to have some kind of DR plan that is better/faster than tape. Is there anything built into Exchange 2003 that will let us do this? Ideally we want a situation where if we lose power (or there is a planned evacuation) at one of the locations, the mailboxes can be served up at the other location. I do not think clustering is an option as the microwave is not 100% reliable (its probably 97% reliable) Heartbeat cannot be guaranteed. We do not want to have random cluster failovers. In our infrastructure is an EMC SAN. We will likely put the exchange stuff on that. While the EMC SAN has replication (SRDF) I do not think the replicated data can be used with out a great deal of work. We are also using Legato Networker. Anyone out there with an environment and needs like ours? Any help /feedback would be appreciated. The vendor is currently on the premises and is going to begin the migration in the next several weeks. Thanks in Advance. Aristotle Zoulas _________________________________________________________________ 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.
