Re: Your thoughts on a print cluster.

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Software is also more expensive. A cluster requires Enterprise Edition,
which is about 4 times the price of Standard.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering Website
http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
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"Justin Rich" <jrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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