Don't do it. Make it Active/Passive and everything will run much better. With the current restrictions, there is NO advantage to running Active/Active. Matter of fact, if you have better response time in Active/Active mode, they you are pretty well guaranteed to have problems during fail-over.
Just don't do it, you have nothing to gain. And you also make it harder to do things like apply patches to the system without creating downtime. And if 2000 users is all you have, then you are way overbuilt in the backend server. What I don't hear you mentioning is the front-end server, pretty much a design requirement for large backend servers, especially at an educational facility. Ed -----Original Message----- From: Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Monday, March 11, 2002 8:12 AM Posted To: Microsoft Exchange Conversation: An Active/Active cluster installation of exchange Subject: An Active/Active cluster installation of exchange I'm starting today to deploy my first exchange 2000 active/active cluster. I read the white papers from Microsoft on how to set this up. Is there anything that they forget to tell you in these papers. We have 7000 users in our exchange site now, which contains two servers. We never have more than 1000 concurrent users attached to the system at all times. What files should be on the cluster drives (store - priv& pub, SMtp logs, etc...) I have two Quad 700 MHz 2 Meg Xenon with over 3gb RAM attached to a Compaq MA6000 storageworks unit. We are going to migrated the users using the mailbox move method. Any suggestion would be appreciated. Thanks, Eric Sabo NT Administrator Computing Services Center California University of Pennsylvania _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
