You owe me a new monitor. On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Kennedy, Jim <[email protected]>wrote:
> Nice John. I love you too man. This is a load off my mind, I thought I had > blown this purchase bad. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:18 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs. > > Ok...we had problems with accessing files on a DFS share so what we did was > use DFS for replication only and access via direct file share on the server > that is being replicated. That is to say, DFS share= > \\DFSshare\sharename\file and we would access it as \\servername\share\file. > Two different ways to get to the same file, but you don't have to worry > about whether someone else has it open or which server you're getting it > from. That seems to have solved OUR problem. Whether that will work for you > or not, I don't know. > > > > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:10 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs. > > Wooooo.target priority to create a hot standby. > > You got me to look harder. I love you man, thanks!! > > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:07 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs. > > Looking that way too..but my concern there is shared storage and people > opening up a document in two locations..DFS resorts to last saved wins I > think. > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:05 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: RE: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs. > > IMO you should be looking at enterprise DFS. > > Regards, > > Michael B. Smith > Consultant and Exchange MVP > http://TheEssentialExchange.com <http://theessentialexchange.com/> > > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 1:02 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Now DoubleTake was Clustering for noobs. > > Upon further reflection I am thinking since I have two identical servers > with their own storage clustering is not the way to go for a file server. > Double Take may be a better bet. It used to get rave reviews, anyone still > using it and have an opinion? > > From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 10:24 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Clustering for noobs. > > With me being the noob. > > So I have two identical 2008 R1 Storage Severs here with bunches of TB's in > them. My intent is to cluster them and put everyone's home drives on them. > They will only be used for user file storage. I have the basics figured out > from a nice MS whitepaper. Bring them into the domain, cluster them, then > apply a name to the cluster and hang a File Share off the cluster name. > > My open questions are about details. For example using FSRM for quota's, AV > software on the storage pool, backups...do I just do that to each individual > server like I normally would on a single server? > > Also, how difficult is it to change the IP's of a cluster after it is > created. 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