Re: Your thoughts on a print cluster.

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Thanks for the info. I've been reading as much as i can but they wanted to
make a purchase that day. Obviously not the smartest move but wasnt my idea.
Sadly things dont get done until something breaks and then they are willing
to do the upgrades but they are obviously rushed to get things up and
running as soon as possible..

I dont forsee a SAN being any cheaper than 10K which im not sure i can pull
off.. i might just have to make my own fail over with DNS..

"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" <rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:ugAtcjXAGHA.532@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
> http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering Website
> http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
> http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Training
>
>
> "Justin Rich" <jrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OiFqyGXAGHA.1676@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
>>> news:OZoFwG1$FHA.916@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> 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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