You need to isolate the heartbeat is it's own private network. NEC has a new server out called the Fault Tolerant Server. It has limited scalablity, so I would not recommend it for large environments. However, it does address the TCO of clustering. In addition it looks to be superior in how it achieves uptime numbers. http://www.necft.com
Regards, Leonard > Hi, > When network connection become unavailable for an extend period of time = > (like working on switches, etc...) our clustered Exchanges services goes = > offline and have a hard time coming back to reality. Manual procedure = > does bring it back online, however, this defeats the purpose of cluster. = > In a non-cluster Exchange environment, it is not as dependent on the = > networking and all Exchange services does not go offline... Does anyone = > know how to set up the virtual services to not depend on connection = > state as much? > > Vitals: Exchange 2K Cluster (Active/Passive), Win 2K, all patched. > > Thanks. _________________________________________________________________ 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]

