On Tue, 17 May 2005, Paul Greidanus wrote: > Smith, Gina wrote: > > I am asking a question that I am not sure how to ask, so please bare > > with me. I am running Sun Ray Server 3.0 on a primary and secondary > > server. If I am logged into the primary server and it dies, is there a > > way to switch over to secondary without the user noticing any change??? > > > Not with the current setup, that would require mirrored memory between > the machines. Users will get logged out, but they will be able to log > in very quiclly (5 seconds or so worst case) > > I've heard some talk about a desire to have a migratable session, where > the user's session can be copied, not in real time, to another sunray > server, so an administrator can take the machine down without any > session loss (users would be disconnected for a few minutes however.)
I support the idea of session migration. That would allow me to install patches more transparently without having to kill the session ! Thierry. IF someone would use something like Myrinet, Infiniband, or Quadrics > interconnect between the servers, there is a chance that they could be > mirrored, but that would require a great deal of hacking, probably both > with SunRay Server, and Solaris itself. > > -- > Paul Greidanus > CAD Administrator / Systems Administrator > Center of Excellence in Integrated Nanotools University of Alberta > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 780-492-7368 > http://www.cein.ualberta.ca > > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
