I have heard of geo-clusters working, but they are extremely expensive. In general, it only makes financial sense when your organization is already doing it for other applications.
You might be able to offer a cheaper alternative, a script that would delete the old mailboxes and recreate them onto a different server in the event of a failure. Then you restore the old data to your recovery server and use Exmerge to put the data into the users' new mailboxes. Because a script would run very quickly, your users have e-mail service almost immediately, and their old data would show up a little while later. If what your management wants is "e-mail dial tone" as opposed to access to old mail, then this might do the trick. Sorry, Tony, but I can't see what VMware does for this problem. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of giovanni isnardi Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 3:09 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Cross-site clusters Has anyone any experience with cross-site clusters using something like EMC SRDF and Geospan software? Management is concerned that in the event of our entire datacentre going, it would take more than 24hrs for our mail syatems to come back online from tape restores to another set of servers. thanks in advance. _________________________________________________________________ Find a cheaper internet access deal - choose one to suit you. http://www.msn.co.uk/internetaccess _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
