Re: Active/Active Clustering

From: Jason Nash [MSFT] (jasnas_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 07/20/04


Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 06:50:32 -0500

I have encountered it in the "real world" on multiple occations. The setup
was great and high availability was maintained.

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"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" <rod@die.spam.die.nw-america.com> wrote in 
message news:%23QQE2acbEHA.3148@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Agreed, but I have never hit one in the real world. If you want High
> Availability, you have pay the price. When a system fails, you want the 
> same
> level of performance out of it. Most people don't configure the systems so
> that happens, hence why I really think this is a very bad idea.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rod
>
> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
> http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
>
> "Jason Nash [MSFT]" <jasnas@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:40fc1d94$1@news.microsoft.com...
>> Hi Marcos,
>>
>> It isn't necessarily a bad idea.  It really depends what type of 
>> resources
>> you will be running on your cluster.  There are many valid reasons to run
> an
>> Active/Active solution.
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> Jason Nash [MSFT]
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>>
>>
>> "Marcos" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:006a01c46dc1$ba019c80$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> > Hey Rod,
>> >
>> > I'm looking to setup a shared-nothing Active/Active
>> > configuration.  In which both nodes can host resources at
>> > the same time, but they cannot host the same resource at
>> > the same time.
>> >
>> > In your opinion, why is this a bad idea?
>> >
>> > Thank you.
>> >>-----Original Message-----
>> >>Active/Active is a very bad idea. When a system fails
>> > and you run both DB's
>> >>on one server, it can get ugly. With that said I have a
>> > ton of white paper
>> >>references on my website for SQL.
>> >>
>> >>Cheers,
>> >>
>> >>Rod
>> >>
>> >>MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
>> >>http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
>> >>
>> >>"Marcos" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> > message
>> >>news:07ae01c46db9$61f8f720$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> >>> Any good information, white papers, how-tos, examples,
>> >>> etc. on Active/Active Clustering?
>> >>>
>> >>> Thank you.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>.
>> >>
>>
>>
>
> 


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