Re: Need a good hardware cluster solution

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From: Russ Kaufmann [MCT] (russ_at_exchangemct.nospam.com)
Date: 12/22/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:21:21 -0700

"Clayton Sutton" <none@none.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the input Scott,
>
> What do you mean by: "If you build fault tolerance into your NLB/server
> cluster design"? Using a product like... (what?)

As Rich pointed out, we can do many things to improve uptime through fault
tolerance. For example, if your servers have dual power supplies, RAID
configurations for hard drives, dual connections to dual Fiber switches,
mirrored RAM, and so on and so on. You can then combine the fault tolerance
within a server to the next level by having multiple servers in either an
NLB cluster or a server cluster. Which technology you choose will most
likely be dependent on the application requirements.

>From my years of working with lock step products like Marathon, I really
haven't seen much improvement in uptime of an application over a Microsoft
cluster. When you start getting to 99.99%, you can rest pretty easy.

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