Hi, > Hello, All, > We are in the process of re-architecting our Web and E-Mail hosting service. > > For our web hosting we are architecting things in such a way that all of the > web content is going to be stored on a common web content storage device and > we will be able to add front end web servers as needed. This will allow us > to have more redundancy, load balancing, fault tolerance, etc. So we can > take down servers for extended periods of time, if necessary, or reboot > servers here and there without having to worry about content not being > available. [.....]
For this VM has made the VM ESX server. Put in x number of boxes. Run one or more VM sessions on a box. If you want to take the box down move the sessions while active to a new hardware server. Works only when you have a shared storage device attached to the servers. Sounds to me like this is what you want. Do what hotmail does. Store a mailbox on a given server/storage unit and make sure that unit is allways available. They use a different architecture but the end result is the same. Use a blade server to give you the cpu cycles and a SAN for the storage if you need lot's of cpu and disk, use a few separte servers and a shared disksystem if you need less. Met vriendelijke groet, Bonno Bloksma --- [E-mail scanned at tio.nl for viruses by Declude Virus] To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
