Clustering can be great if it is applied to the right problems. Clustering doesn't provide load balancing, but rather fault tolerance for certain specific types of failures. If those failures justify the cost and complexity associated with Exchange clustering and your organization possesses sufficiently robust policies, procedures and expertise to realize improved uptime as a result, it's worth the investment. Unfortunately that is often not the case.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MSX Mailing List Posted At: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 4:54 PM Posted To: swynk Conversation: Getting started with Exchange 2003 server clustering 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? What I had hoped it would offer was mostly fault tolerance in the event of a server failing, and also load balancing. But perhaps I have the wrong ideas about what this will actually do. 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? 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? 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.
