All, My company is evaluating both Veritas Volume Replicator and Steeleye Lifekeeper for Data Replication (formerly an NCR product) for business continuity purposes of an exchange 5.5 organization. We're a small organization with one NT4 domain and one Exchange 5.5 site. Eventually we'll go to AD 2003 and Exchange 2003. We have a datacenter at company headquarters and a datacenter at a remote colocation facility which we fully control. Connectivity between the 2 datacenters is a dedicated DS3.
The current plan is that if HQ were wiped out by disaster (natural or otherwise), having a remote replicated exchange information store and domain controller would allow us to bring up the information store in a matter of minutes if we so desired. Both of these products perform sector-level copies of the volume housing the production exchange information stores and txn logs and do write order integrity maintenance. The target of the replication would be a server with Exchange installed but off-line. The target replicated volumes are locked by the replication software until the replication is fractured. Has anyone used either of these? Any war stories or success stories with either? Or alternative products that are better suited to this? thanks much for the time and info, wegan _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
