Check out Neverfail. Simular to Double-Take, but fails-over back and forth more elegantly. Unfortunately, a bit more pricey than DT. They may even have an application specific module for Imail by now, as they do for Exchange, SQL, etc.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert E. Spivack Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] How to ensure high availability of email service using Imail 2006? Is Double-Take suitable for file server applications? (i.e. creating an HA file server via replication instead of actual clustering?) I'm hesitant to consider any product where they won't show the price on their website until you fill out a quote form. Usually, that tells me it is expensive and they are afraid of giving out the price until they have a sales lead they lock in. Is there any product (besides Microsoft cluster service) that is suitable for building an HA file server configuration? I'm primarily interested in solutions that don't require a shared SCSI quorum drive that MSCS uses - due to hardware and other configuration issues that's the problem I'm trying to avoid by not using MSCS. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sanford Whiteman Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 7:28 PM To: Cathal O'Donnell Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] How to ensure high availability of email service using Imail 2006? > I am looking for detailed information and recommendations on how to > deploy Imail 2006 in such a way to guarantee the high availability > of email service. I have read about one method by using a backup > server with a lower MX record to act as store and forward. Are there > any other methods /system designs such as replication or clustering > that anyone has been successful with? IMail is fully compatible with Microsoft Clusters and third-party clustering software such as Double-Take. If you're familiar with how clustering works in general, you'll find IMail a generic, easily-clustered set of services. If you're not familiar, that's where you need to start. You need to be able to develop both business and functional specs for your clustered environment, so that all parties concerned know what you are and aren't promising, i.e. how you define "high availability." --Sandy ------------------------------------ Sanford Whiteman, Chief Technologist Broadleaf Systems, a division of Cypress Integrated Systems, Inc. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SpamAssassin plugs into Declude! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/SPAMC32/download/release / Defuse Dictionary Attacks: Turn Exchange or IMail mailboxes into IMail Aliases! http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/exchange2aliases/downloa d/release/ http://www.imprimia.com/products/software/freeutils/ldap2aliases/download/re lease/ 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/ 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/ 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/
