On Jun 3, 2009, at 9:37 PM, William Herrin wrote:
If you can afford it, stretch the LAN across the facilities via fiber and rebuild the critical services as a load balanced active-active cluster.
I would advise strongly against stretching a layer-2 topology across sites, if at all possible - far better to go for layer-3 separation, work with the app/database/sysadmin folks to avoid dependence on direct adjacencies, and gain the topological freedom of routing.
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