On 4/9/2011 9:15 PM, Brian Desmond wrote: > Your boss is not understanding something or another correctly. > > Paying your SAN people to do the replication required here is going to cost > you a lot of money. I'd suggest you revisit mirroring.
It's not the mirroring he's confused about, it's how do do the routine maintenance. What he needs to know: you have 2 nodes in site #1, and 2 nodes in site #2. You have one node in site #1 that needs maintenance (BIOS upgrade, Windows updates, etc), the documentation only shows one scenario - failing the whole cluster fails over to the other site. But that's not what we're talking about - how do we fail over the cluster resources to the other node in this *same* site. Failing the whole cluster over to the other site is a big deal. What we're confused about is how to do what we do now, with our non-multi-site clusters - fail the cluster and it's resources to node #2; pause node #1 so we can apply whatever patches and reboots that it needs, then fail the cluster resources back to node #1. All within this same site. We don't want to fail over to the other site, just failover *within* this site. Hope that's clearer. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
