If you do, I'd love to hear how it works out for you, either on list or off.
-Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ivanick Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 8:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [U2] Hypothetical question about switching server frontends to SAN w/o reinstalling Universe Thanks very much, Mike, I'll probably give that a shot myself just to see what happens. Mike Pflugfelder wrote: > 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/
