RE: New HA server and business server strategy?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's interesting - I have the MS Action Pack which includes Virtual
Serve=
r, so have the required software :)

Paul.


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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Dave Sussman
> Sent: 22 July 2006 10:44
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] New HA server and business server strategy?
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> This is something I'll be doing in the future, using virtualisation. I
> have a friend who has a single big machine with three virtual servers
> (using MS Virtual Server) running on it; each appears as a separate
> server. The advantages are:
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> Downside is single point of failure. My plan is to give each virtual
> server it's own pair of mirrored discs for their OS and centralise all
> storage onto a raid nas box. I'll be using MS Virtual Server, but I
> suspect the VMWare solution is similar.
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> Dave
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of
> > Paul Gale
> > Sent: 22 July 2006 09:55
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] New HA server and business server strategy?
> >
> > I've currently got the following boxes running 24/7 at home:
> >
> > 1)	W2K3 Server - IIS, DHCP, DNS, AD, ExchangeServer, HomeSeer +
Lots of
> > other xAP and HA apps + MP3 server
> > 2)	Geovision CCTV server (XP)
> > 3)	Dell (=A3100) server running Asterisk @ Home (CentOS Linux)
> >
> > The HA apps are growing and now require a fair bit of processing
power
> and
> > are becoming more likely to impact on the server and exchange
functions
> -
> > and I'm worried they may crash occasionally.
> >
> > So - I want to restructure all of this, especially as I'll be
moving
> into
> > a larger custom built Node0 early next year :-) I was originally
> thinking
> > of adding another PC to run all the HA stuff on and separating it
from
> the
> > W2K3 server/exchange functions. However, I don't want to keep
adding
> more
> > PC's!!!
> >
> > Could I use VM ware or something similar on one or two really
powerful
> > boxes? Does this work OK and are there any down-sides to doing
this?
> >
> > Any other thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Paul.
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