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Windows Server Forum / Exchange Server / Clustering / July 2008Exchange Backup
We are currently running Exchange 2003 SP2 with 5 BE servers and 2 FE servers. They are physically split between 2 datacenters in Dallas but are 1 organization and connected by a GigaMAN circuit. We currently have approx 3400 users and 6500 mailboxes. I am not particularly interested in creating a cluster, but if you can show me how it can be done in such a way as to allow me to run Exchange database maintenance without an outage to the users, I would like to hear about it. On the Exchange 2003 platform, stretching a cluster across the WAN is going to be a challenging proposition involving 3rd party replication and failover products. If you don't intend to go Exchange 2007, then you'd probably be better off looking at solutions like Veritas Cluster Server. If you do intend to go Exchange 2007, with the bandwith you have it shouldn't be too hard to stretch a CCR cluster across the WAN. > We are currently running Exchange 2003 SP2 with 5 BE servers and 2 FE > servers. They are physically split between 2 datacenters in Dallas but [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > database > maintenance without an outage to the users, I would like to hear about it. >We are currently running Exchange 2003 SP2 with 5 BE servers and 2 FE >servers. They are physically split between 2 datacenters in Dallas but are 1 [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >me how it can be done in such a way as to allow me to run Exchange database >maintenance without an outage to the users, I would like to hear about it. Without some sort of clustering technology, you are going to affect your end users during maint to the servers. Even with clustering, there is a small window during fail-over. Outlook in cache mode goes a long way to mitigate this. Thanks Andy & John In addition to Outlook in cache mode could the Recovery Storage Group be used as well? Thx > >We are currently running Exchange 2003 SP2 with 5 BE servers and 2 FE > >servers. They are physically split between 2 datacenters in Dallas but are 1 [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Outlook in cache mode goes a long way to mitigate this. Why can't you get a maintenance window? > Thanks Andy & John > [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] >> >> Outlook in cache mode goes a long way to mitigate this. |
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