I vaguely remember talking about it in the past. Although we were talking about domain controllers. I thought that on the Exchange server I should still have it running.
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:06 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering Just disable the DNS Client service - it only causes problems anyway. ------------------------------------------------------ Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis - Formerly Harbinger and Extricity Atlanta, GA > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:46 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > I did just that. > > From personal experience I prefer to reboot the machine after > stopping the service (as opposed to simply restarting the > services). Sometimes the Information Store service takes > hours to stop. And if a full backup is running at the same > time (because it got delayed for whatever reason), IS will never stop. > > There was a period of time when I had to restart the back-end > Exchange server every night after applying SP2. Otherwise OWA > refused to work correctly the following day. > > But then I discovered that doing ipconfig /flushdns once in a > while solved that problem. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Great Cthulhu Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 9:02 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > Heck, just write a batch file that stops all services and > bounces the box > Sunday at 2AM and you don't even have to call it in to an > operator. Five > nines, indeed. The box only really needs to be up when people > are using it. > > (:= > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Crowley > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 9:00 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > It's a pretty steep price to pay to avoid an occasional Sunday morning > reboot. > > Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP kcCC+I > Tech Consultant > hp Services > Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dennis Depp > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 12:15 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > I've looked into Exchange Active/Passive clustering for our Exchange > 2000 servers. The largest Exchange problem that causes downtime is > corruption in the database. I agree with Ed that clustering > cannot help > in this senario. However, even with high quality hardware, you still > have to deal with the 58 security patches and one Windows 2000 service > pack that have been issued this year. Granted not all the 58 security > patches are Windows 2000 related, but a large number of them are. An > active/passive cluster gives me the capability of installing hotfixes > and service packs without impacting my Exchange server even for a > reboot. Also I can install the hotfixes during the day on the passive > node and then failover that evening. If there is a problem, > I can fail > back to the unpatched node. The reduction in reboots and late hours > makes an Active/passive cluster very appealing. However, clusters do > add a level of complexity. Unless you understand clusters > and how they > operate, this added complexity can decrease uptime instead of increase > it. > > Denny > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 5:11 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > I think at this stage of its development clustering provides very poor > business value. It really protects you from very few failure > scenarios. > Instead, I'd make sure I had the most highly internally > redundant system > I could afford, buy a capable recovery and hot standby server, and > practice my disaster recovery skills. > > Ed Crowley MCSE+I MVP > Technical Consultant > hp Services > "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral > problems." > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Imran Iqbal > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:36 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > We are currently an Exchange 5.5 site, as part of our move to Exchange > 2000 I am considering setting up Exchange on a 2 node Active Active > cluster and would be interested in hearing anyone views or real world > experiences with similar setups. Each server would have about 800 > active users and would probably be connected to a SAN for the shared > storage. > > I have heard that there were memory issues with this setup pre SP3. I > would like to know if there are any other problems and if it is worth > doing > > Thanks in advance > > > Imran > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
