No I am just preparing for the worst-case scenario.
-----Original Message----- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 11:11 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering If you're basing your life around 4 identical boxes that all experience hardware failures that close together, I suggest you switch hardware vendors. Fast. Keep in mind, too, that A/A/A/P means you're running Datacenter. ------------------------------------------------------ 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 11:04 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > 3 Storage Groups on each node, right? :) > > I like the idea of a/a/a/p, but that's a one trick pony. You > better hope that the other two nodes are not going to fail soon. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Great Cthulhu Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:59 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > Which meant if you had 3 databases on each cluster, the other > active node > would fail as soon as it failed to mount one store too many. > > That's why MS now pushes a/a/a/p clustering. a/a was an unmitigated > disaster. > > (:= > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Andrey Fyodorov > Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 9:32 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > No, according to the theory you can get more users on > Active/Active because > both cluster nodes are being used to do something useful. But > if one fails, > the other node better be able to take on the load. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Depp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 2:50 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: Views on Exchange Active Active clustering > > > Stay away from active/active. Go Active/passive instead. You can get > more users on Active/Passive. > > Denny > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Imran Iqbal > Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 5:36 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]
