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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:49
AM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Imail High
Availability Setup
Your
Idea of a Dell NAS doesn't provide for HA, what if the NAS fails? I do
not remember clustering being an option for the Win Appliance OS. You
would be better off looking at a soloution more like RaidZone's GangStor (http://www.raidzone.com/Products___Solutions/GangStor_Overview/gangstor_overview.html),
which is fully redundant, and scaleable, I'm not sure how it handles file
locks though, but, 6.06 seems to always write a lock file for all operations
or rewrite the file name using a lock convention. Still not a bad Idea to have
seperate spool and log directories for each server only sharing the message
store.
Thanks,
Chuck Frolick
ArgoNet, Inc.
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Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 11:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Imail High
Availability Setup
Len,
It's been a while since we've spoke. Good
to hear from you again & see that you're still on the Imail listserv
here. See my response below to your comments, in red:
What about having both
Imail servers access a common storage pool via a NAS (network attached
storage) appliance? For example, some of the NAS devices I've learned
about from Dell have a Windows OS on board that supposedly controls file
locking. Using gigabit Ethernet between the NAS & the Imail
servers, I think that would potentially offer an adequate level of speed
& prevent file collisions.
I'm thinking that a Windows powered
NAS from Dell, using gigabit ethernet connectivity might be the answer
for file collision management. As for the configuration mirroring, I'm
planning on writing some code to use the command line utilities & Imail
APIs to keep both Imail configurations in sync with each
other.
