RE: E2K Clustering advice

2003-03-11 Thread Jeffrey Dubyn
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2K Clustering advice Talk them into using a proxy server to publish their front-end server to the Internet. Benefits: 1. You can make the non-clustered FE server the first server in site without, as Ed points out, having

RE: E2K Clustering advice

2003-03-10 Thread Ken Cornetet
Crowley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 11:39 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2K Clustering advice Building the non-clustered front-end as the first server in the site would mean that your Site Replication Server would reside in the DMZ. That's even worse than

RE: E2K Clustering advice

2003-03-10 Thread Roger Seielstad
- MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Inovis Inc. -Original Message- From: Ken Cornetet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 9:28 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2K Clustering advice Talk them into using a proxy server to publish their front-end server

RE: E2K Clustering advice

2003-03-07 Thread Ed Crowley
Building the non-clustered front-end as the first server in the site would mean that your Site Replication Server would reside in the DMZ. That's even worse than a front-end server in a DMZ; I agree with your opinion on that. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting

Re: E2k Clustering

2002-03-14 Thread Dennis Depp
] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:00 AM Subject: RE: E2k Clustering I talked to compaq/microsoft today, I am confident in our situation here that an active/active is the right choice for us. Currently we have the following: Server no. 1 - Quad Pentium Pro 200 MHZ (very old chipset technology

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-14 Thread Andy David
Damn good hardware. -Original Message- From: Dennis Depp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: E2k Clustering Missy, If you would not recommend clustering, what do you recommend for high availablility environments

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-14 Thread Bowles, John L.
] -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:20 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Damn good hardware. -Original Message- From: Dennis Depp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:13 AM

Re: E2k Clustering

2002-03-14 Thread missy koslosky
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:13 AM Subject: Re: E2k Clustering Missy, If you would not recommend clustering, what do you recommend for high availablility environments? Dennis Depp At 11:17 AM 3/13/2002 -0500, missy koslosky wrote: While I'm really not into arguing the point, while

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-14 Thread Atkinson, Daniel
had so many problems with that it was unreal. Since going back to standalone servers I have had 100% uptime, and sleep easy at night. Dan -Original Message- From: Dennis Depp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 March 2002 14:13 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: E2k Clustering Missy

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-14 Thread Andy David
Yowza. Keep these posts coming. They want to cluster here and I am fighting the good fight with these little snippets! -Original Message- From: Atkinson, Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 9:22 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering My

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-14 Thread Roger Seielstad
, 2002 9:13 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: E2k Clustering Missy, If you would not recommend clustering, what do you recommend for high availablility environments? Dennis Depp At 11:17 AM 3/13/2002 -0500, missy koslosky wrote: While I'm really not into arguing the point

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-14 Thread Martin Blackstone
Mmmm solid box -Original Message- From: missy koslosky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 6:27 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: E2k Clustering Really good hardware with redundant components. When I worked in a hosting environment, that's what we did

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-14 Thread Atkinson, Daniel
Yowza. Keep these posts coming. They want to cluster here and I am fighting the good fight with these little snippets! Well, the arguments are simple... 1. you have to do active/passive clustering, so you'll always have one expensive server doing absolutely nothing. What a waste! 2. All

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Etts, Russell
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:51 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Make it Active/Passive as recommended and it's a moot point. -Original Message- From: Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:42 PM Posted

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Kevin Miller
To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Hi there I was looking over the white paper, and according to Microsoft, both active/passive and active/active are recommended in the below listed whitepaper. Do you have access to information that suggests otherwise?? Thanks Russell

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Woodrick, Ed
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:51 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Make it Active/Passive as recommended and it's a moot point. -Original Message- From: Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:42 PM Posted

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Sabo, Eric
Administrator Computing Services Center California University of Pennsylvania -Original Message- From: Woodrick, Ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Use Active/Passive clusters when possible

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Kevin Miller
Subject: RE: E2k Clustering I talked to compaq/microsoft today, I am confident in our situation here that an active/active is the right choice for us. Currently we have the following: Server no. 1 - Quad Pentium Pro 200 MHZ (very old chipset technology) - 1 MEG cache on each processor - 2 GB RAM

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Sabo, Eric
Center California University of Pennsylvania -Original Message- From: Kevin Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering And what do you plan on gaining from the active active? --Kevinm M, WLKMMAS, UCC+WCA

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Woodrick, Ed
Clustering Subject: RE: E2k Clustering I get to use both of my servers that I purchased. Cause of our budget is so tight and I have get buy. It took me a year to get the following equipment. Don't you think active/active is right for me, since I am below the MS recommendations. Eric Sabo NT

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Exchange
, March 13, 2002 10:17 AM Posted To: Exchange Conversation: E2k Clustering Subject: RE: E2k Clustering I get to use both of my servers that I purchased. Cause of our budget is so tight and I have get buy. It took me a year to get the following equipment. Don't you think active/active is right

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Sabo, Eric
Message- From: Exchange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:43 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Eric, It's not such much the processor you should be worried about, but the virtual memory. You'll see, the VM will get fragmented, and failover might

Re: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread missy koslosky
- Original Message - From: Sabo, Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Exchange Discussions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:48 AM Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Why does Microsoft say you can even do an active/active cluster in the first place with those parameters as describe in the SP2

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Exchange
, and of course never hyped the bad part once problems arose. On top of that: what Missy said. -Per -Original Message- From: missy koslosky [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 10:51 AM Posted To: Exchange Conversation: E2k Clustering Subject: Re: E2k Clustering Sheesh

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Etts, Russell
: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 9:59 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Use Active/Passive clusters when possible to increase scalability and reduce failover times. Active/Active clusters are only supported in 2-node configurations in which each node has a maximum of 40 percent loading

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Woodrick, Ed
cluster. -Original Message- From: Etts, Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:15 PM Posted To: Microsoft Exchange Conversation: E2k Clustering Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Hi there Let me start by saying two things: 1) I didn't mean to start

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Woodrick, Ed
is already above it. -Original Message- From: Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:48 AM Posted To: Microsoft Exchange Conversation: E2k Clustering Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Why does Microsoft say you can even do an active/active cluster

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Etts, Russell
To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering You CANNOT add more users in Active/Active. That is a simple fact. Active/Active has a limit of about 3900 users. Active/Passive has no such limit. It is limited only by the hardware. There are quite a few 6,000 user Active/Passive clusters

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Roger Seielstad
. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA -Original Message- From: Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:01 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering I talked to compaq/microsoft today, I am confident

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Roger Seielstad
-- Roger D. Seielstad - MCSE Sr. Systems Administrator Peregrine Systems Atlanta, GA [1] Big Arse -Original Message- From: Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 11:48 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Why does

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-13 Thread Stidley, Joel
you want to be touched by just anyone. Joel -Original Message- From: Roger Seielstad [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 12:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Because you can make a BA-Cluster[1] for strictly IMAP/POP/OWA clients (ie those

RE: E2k Clustering Active/Active

2002-03-12 Thread Woodrick, Ed
Don't do Active/Active, do Active/Passive and everybody's happy. If Active/Passive slows down user response too much, then Active/Active is pretty well guaranteed to fail. Read SP2 Release Notes -Original Message- From: Andrew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Tuesday, March 12,

RE: E2k Clustering Active/Active

2002-03-12 Thread Ashby, Andrew
Thanks, sorry for all the repeats. Andrew -Original Message- From: Woodrick, Ed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:04 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Active/Active Don't do Active/Active, do Active/Passive and everybody's happy

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-12 Thread Sabo, Eric
- From: Etts, Russell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:20 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: E2k Clustering Hi there According to the MS whitepaper, here are the limits for active / active: After you deploy your cluster, make sure you do the following: Limit

RE: E2k Clustering

2002-03-12 Thread Woodrick, Ed
Make it Active/Passive as recommended and it's a moot point. -Original Message- From: Sabo, Eric [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 5:42 PM Posted To: Microsoft Exchange Conversation: E2k Clustering Subject: RE: E2k Clustering When they talk about concurrent