Re: Your thoughts on a print cluster.

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You need to read up on clustering, or ask more questions :) You HAVE to use
shared storage for the spooler folder. The reason the local disks don't show
up is because they would not work for failover or clustering. Don't waste
your time reconfiguring the OS.

A cluster should be on the Clustering Catalog. This will include a storage
solution. SCSI based would be the lowest priced. Remember its all about HA.
Clusters are expensive in many ways.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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"Justin Rich" <jrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> thats a good question that im currently struggling with.
>
> what i was about to try was to use a local physical disk and do individual
> groups and make it an active/active configuration.
> It currently wont show any local disks to choose from but im guessing
> thats because they are all in a RAID and show up as one physical disk to
> the OS.
>
> Because of the servers i have they only have 2 physical disks so
> unfortunatly i have to use each disk individually one for the OS and one
> for the spool storage.
>
> so now im going to have to rebuild the servers and create seperate single
> node groups. not sure how well that will work all i had about it was a
> little note in the documentation that you can do that... doesnt mention if
> you need a SAN or just a physical disk.
>
> If it comes down to it, whats the cheapest way i can setup a SAN?
>
> Its obviously just for the spooler which will only be a few MB.. the only
> SAN's i have seen are TB's or so.. much larger and much more expensive
> than im looking for.
>
> Thanks for all your help.
>
> Justin
>
>
> "Russ Kaufmann [MVP]" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%23QSrCCOAGHA.1568@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> "Justin Rich" <jrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> well i dont really have a whole lot of choices because i dont have a SAN
>>> available to me so basically i have to do a local quorum... and set it
>>> up as a MNS cluster... which works out fine because i have 3 servers :)
>>>
>>> Thats not your typical setup for such a senario but i dont think there
>>> will be a problem with it.
>>
>> and what do you propose to use for your physical disk resource for the
>> print queue drive?
>>
>> --
>> Russ Kaufmann
>>
>> MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
>> http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Website
>> http://msmvps.com/clusterhelp - Blog
>>
>
>


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