Re: Your thoughts on a print cluster.

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yeah.. so as i figured that didnt work... guess i need to locate a SAN or
find some other solution... that sucks..

Thanks for everyones input.


"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" <rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:u0MKjyYAGHA.3584@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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
> http://www.clusterhelp.com - Cluster Training
>
>
> "Justin Rich" <jrich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:OY6SDgYAGHA.2392@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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