Hi there, I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation with regards to setting up a remote site exchange cluster with an iSCSI storage array. I have little experience with MSCS or iSCSI so forgive my ignorance, but I was thinking of some sort of synchronous storage-based replication of iSCSI devices to a remote DR site. Is this possible? Any input would be greatly appreciated thanks
i advice you to read the following document " Geographically Dispersed Clusters in Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003" from the following link: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/techinfo/overview/clustergeo.mspx please let me know if you need more information. Regards Alaa Al-Ankar wrote in message news:1144882396.279039.65120@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com... > Hi there, > > I was wondering if anyone has a recommendation with regards to setting > up a remote site exchange cluster with an iSCSI storage array. I have > little experience with MSCS or iSCSI so forgive my ignorance, but I was > thinking of some sort of synchronous storage-based replication of iSCSI > devices to a remote DR site. Is this possible? > > Any input would be greatly appreciated > > thanks >
As an alternative to MSCS and Geographic clustering, you may want to consider asyncronous host based replication, such as LifeKeeper for Exchange from SteelEye Technology. We also have syncronous replication, but due to latency across WANs, it is almost never recommended to do syncronous replication because of the negative impact it will have on the primary server. If you want HA, you can have two nodes attached to the local iSCSI storage and then replicate to the third node. This gives you both an HA solution and a DR solution. Contact us via www.steeleye.com if you would like additional information. DISCLAIMER: I am a SteelEye employee.
