Re: clustering info?

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From: Rodney R. Fournier [MVP] (rod_at_die.spam.die.nw-america.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 21:55:14 -0500

Welcome Joe from Exotic Scales! Yes I went to your website, I mean I just
had to check it out. Now to answer all these questions below and more please
visit mine. I have links to several ways for you to learn clustering.
Virtual Server or VMware will work, both are very affordable and even have
evals for free to get your feet wet. You just need more RAM in the Dell box
and you can build a virtual cluster (though I have done it with it 512,
giving each node 156). You should also check out NLB, since that is a great
way to load balance web sites.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

"Exotic-Scales.com" <jb@NOSPAM.exotic-scales.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I'm an old DEC guy, so I'm familiar with the concept of clustering; I'm
> just not sure how/if I should implement it in my own environment.
>
> I have what is probably a fairly sophisticated network for home use.
> Right now I'm using an NT4.0 domain controller, with 3 XP Professional
> clients. I'm hosting 4 web sites on my domain server (which is an old
> Gateway Pentium266), as well as Exchange Server, and SQL Server. (Believe
> it or not, everything works quite well for my purposes). Recently, we
> picked up three new machines for myself, my wife, and my daughter, so I'm
> looking at how best to redeploy my old boxes, which consist of a Dell
> Pentium-II 45o with 512 Meg, and an ultra-wide/ultra-fast 10,000 rpm SCSI
> drive, two CTX boxes with AMD K6 350 & 168 Meg, and the aforementioned
> Gateway, which I may or may not use.
>
> I have a volume license version of Windows 2003 Enterprise Server, as well
> as Exchange 2003.
>
> I have my websites running on the Gateway, which has 2 network cards --
> one attaches to my Netgear firewall, the other to my internal network.
> I've tried getting the websites to run on other machines on my internal
> network, without success, so I'm assuming that I have to run them on the
> box whose second network card goes to the uplink. (If it isn't obvious, I
> really don't know what the hell I'm doing -- I'm a coder, not an
> administrator!) I was thinking of maybe putting a second network card in
> the Gateway 450, and setting it up as a dedicated web server, and using
> one of the CTX boxes as a dedicated Exchange Server, and the other as my
> domain controller.
>
> I was wondering, however, how I might do this using clustering. What I'd
> LIKE to have happen is a configuration where my websites would
> load-balance, and if any of my machines went down, my sites and email
> would stay up, but I'm not sure how to set that up. Would I have to
> install dual cards in all three machines, and link them directly to my
> firewall/switch? Would I install mirror images of all the software on all
> 3 machines? Am I doing way overboard for what I really need?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Joe
> http://www.exotic-scales.com
>
>

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