In general, I think clusters offer poor business value. What does a cluster protect you against? With today's highly internally redundant systems and redundant networks and storage, all things you will want to have regardless of whether you cluster, all a cluster protects you against is a motherboard failure. I think the price is awfully high for such a small amount of added protection.
More comments inline. 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 MSX Mailing List Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:54 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Getting started with Exchange 2003 server clustering >From what I am seeing here, I get the feeling that people do not like clustering exchange? >>> Most of us don't recommend clusters to the inexperienced. What I had hoped it would offer was mostly fault tolerance in the event of a server failing, >>> A cluster offers only a small amount of added redundancy beyond what you can get without a cluster. and also load balancing. >>> Active-active clusters aren't even recommended by Microsoft. Even if they were, they don't really do load balancing. But perhaps I have the wrong ideas about what this will actually do. >>> It would seem so. For 800 users spread between three servers in different offices, is this the kind of scenario which would warrant clustering, or are single servers fine in an organisation? >>> A decision whether or not to use clusters wouldn't really be influenced by such factors. We are expecting the store to be quite large (a number of large PST files out there ATM). I dont know if clustering would help with that? >>> That is of no relevance. Please let me know any other thoughts or suggestions you might have on this topic. Regards, Luke _________________________________________________________________ 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.
