WardXmodem
Technical User
Greetings from the inventor of "Xmodem" & (w/Randy Suess), BBS's - celebrating its 25th anniversary February 16, 2003!
A small customer (customer = I'd supply the 2nd server, not the services) has about a 2-year-old 633MHz server that is doing OK as an Exchange server.
They want to upgrade to W2K, then buy a new server for clustering.
Small IT department - manager and employee -- small budget - Definitely not "SAN", and even an external SCSI storage device might break the budget.
My "research" indicates that keeping the 2x18G internal mirrored drives, adding 3 x 36G for new mail storage and growth and moving the data there, then doing new machine with 2x18 & 3x36, all internal, with Legato Co-standby server, might be the most economical and easy to manage solution.
My Logic: (1) they don't need the expense of MS W2K Advanced server; (2) they don't need complexity of MSCS;
I will of course check that their contracted support organization is comfortable with or feels they can learn this product.
I don't want to give them a bum steer, yet my hands are tied in terms of selling them the "ideal" solution which is external raid (so the cluster can fail over even if a drive goes away - which can't happen with internal raid controllers).
Thanks for any advice!
Ward Christensen
A small customer (customer = I'd supply the 2nd server, not the services) has about a 2-year-old 633MHz server that is doing OK as an Exchange server.
They want to upgrade to W2K, then buy a new server for clustering.
Small IT department - manager and employee -- small budget - Definitely not "SAN", and even an external SCSI storage device might break the budget.
My "research" indicates that keeping the 2x18G internal mirrored drives, adding 3 x 36G for new mail storage and growth and moving the data there, then doing new machine with 2x18 & 3x36, all internal, with Legato Co-standby server, might be the most economical and easy to manage solution.
My Logic: (1) they don't need the expense of MS W2K Advanced server; (2) they don't need complexity of MSCS;
I will of course check that their contracted support organization is comfortable with or feels they can learn this product.
I don't want to give them a bum steer, yet my hands are tied in terms of selling them the "ideal" solution which is external raid (so the cluster can fail over even if a drive goes away - which can't happen with internal raid controllers).
Thanks for any advice!
Ward Christensen