The licensing and the files / pointers that you mentioned earlier were the only issues that we encountered. Once all of that was taken care of, it's very simple to just move the 'application' from one server to another. If I ever do get a chance to try it on dis-similar hardware, I'll post a note.
-Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ivanick Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 7:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Hypothetical question about switching server frontends to SAN w/o reinstalling Universe Many thanks, Mike, good to know it's in use elsewhere. Anything I'm missing in terms of the switching out frontends/enabling a new system, or any gotchas I need to worry about apart from the licensing issues you bring up? Mike Pflugfelder wrote: > Peter, > I've had experience with the same setup. We have used SANs for > High Availability environments as well as Disaster Recovery as well. We > have used this in quite a few environments that want to be up all of the > time. We haven't ever tried to use different OS releases as the purpose > was to keep the system highly available or be back online as quickly as > possible. One of the advantages of a scenario like this is that you > don't need to purchase additional licenses for other servers. If your > application goes down for any reason, you fail the disks over to another > server and bring up the application from there. In other scenarios, you > either purchase hot-standby licenses at a percentage of the full price, > or purchase a small user license, then replace it with the full license > if you have a disaster situation. > > Just my $0.02 > > Michael Pflugfelder | Systems Integrator | Keystone Information Systems > | 856-722-0700 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Peter Ivanick Web Services and Instructional Technologies School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 215.573.2306 Fax: 215.573.8777 http://www.vet.upenn.edu/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
