Failover for business continuity

2012-05-30 Thread Ram
I am trying to setup a remote cyrus-replica to a different geographical location for business continuity. In case the main server goes down the users will get switched to the remote server by making a DNS change. The only issue is DNS replication would take a long time so the switch is not

Re: Failover for business continuity

2012-05-30 Thread Dmitry Banschikov
On 05/30/2012 10:52 AM, Ram wrote: I am trying to setup a remote cyrus-replica to a different geographical location for business continuity. In case the main server goes down the users will get switched to the remote server by making a DNS change. The only issue is DNS replication would take a

Re: Failover for business continuity

2012-05-30 Thread Ram
On 05/30/2012 12:43 PM, Dmitry Banschikov wrote: On 05/30/2012 10:52 AM, Ram wrote: I am trying to setup a remote cyrus-replica to a different geographical location for business continuity. In case the main server goes down the users will get switched to the remote server by making a DNS

Re: Failover for business continuity

2012-05-30 Thread Eric Luyten
On Wed, May 30, 2012 9:24 am, Ram wrote: On 05/30/2012 12:43 PM, Dmitry Banschikov wrote: On 05/30/2012 10:52 AM, Ram wrote: I am trying to setup a remote cyrus-replica to a different geographical location for business continuity. In case the main server goes down the users will get

Re: Failover for business continuity

2012-05-30 Thread Ram
On 05/30/2012 02:26 PM, Eric Luyten wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 9:24 am, Ram wrote: On 05/30/2012 12:43 PM, Dmitry Banschikov wrote: On 05/30/2012 10:52 AM, Ram wrote: I am trying to setup a remote cyrus-replica to a different geographical location for business continuity. In case the

Re: Failover for business continuity

2012-05-30 Thread Mark Blackman
On Wed, 30 May 2012, Ram wrote: So if not DNS based fail over , what is the other alternative. I cant move the IP , or re-announce BGP I cant have both servers in active-active mode DNS failover is your best overall option for this case unless you an exceptionally large budget to spend on

Re: Failover for business continuity

2012-05-30 Thread Dan White
On 05/30/12 19:23 +0530, Ram wrote: On 05/30/2012 02:26 PM, Eric Luyten wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2012 9:24 am, Ram wrote: On 05/30/2012 12:43 PM, Dmitry Banschikov wrote: On 05/30/2012 10:52 AM, Ram wrote: I am trying to setup a remote cyrus-replica to a different geographical location for