Re: CCR - Can it be done?   

I would never do a SCC for any reason, CCR is the only way to go. Ask 10 
consultants, get 10 answers :)

Cheers,

Rodney R. Fournier

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"Mark Arnold [MVP]"  wrote in message 
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> On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:40:01 -0700, johnny_mango
>  wrote:
>
>>Sorry, I absolutely failed to mention the servers. There would be 2 nodes,
>>accessing the same HP MSA 500.
>>http://h50043.www5.hp.com/enterprise/msa/hk/en/products/msa500.asp
>>
>>Therefore, would I be able to implement this solution (CCR) using the same
>>set of disks, albeit with different arrays for the active and the passive
>>copy within the same set of disks, but in different RAID arrays? I know 
>>with
>>only 10 disks that would be tough to get a decent level of performance,
>>especially given that in Exch 2003 they currently have 4 databases, 
>>although
>>I think there is scope to consolidate to 3.
>>
>>Thanks a lot for your replies, I appreciate it.
>>
> I would not do CCR or even LCR with the MSA. Just stick with SCC. The
> MSA isn't very resilient anyway so you are not eliminating points of
> failure. There's just no point to it really.
> Obviously that's just my opinion but I do know the MSA range it's not
> really the right thing to attempt CCR on.
>

date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:00:24 -0500   author:   Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]