Notes Clustering

[rolman]

Hi all, need some urgent advices on the Notes Clustering:

I have a project upcoming on Notes Clustering. And I have no experience on the Notes Cluster before.

I know Notes R6 can do the job...but must I need to have Win2003 Enterprise version installed in order to have Note Cluster?

Please kindly advice me... :-(
Hope to have many advices..

Million of thanks.
Rolman

 

[ITGUY53]

Hi Rolman,

I don't know jack about clustering. Even though I've been working with Clustering for 4 months now, I just don't know it well enough to get by. Plus I don't even use Notes.

Sorry...

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[rolman]

Hi ITGUY53, thanks for your reply. Is ok.

Im also going to setup a Mini SAN Clustering with the Note Clustering in August.

Once I have complete the Note Clustering,I will share the info here.

Thanks and Regards
Rolman.

 

[Mike2287]

Don't quote me on this but from what i remember from some classes I took a standard 2003 will work and when setting up the cluster in notes you must tell it what nsf's you want to cluster.

 

[Ydwor]

Hi,


from what I know the clustering feature WITHIN Domino, offers a Notes Client to automatically fail over to a replica server/database. Indeed you´ll have to mark which databases will be replicated offering the failover (clustering) feature. In this scenario no W2k3 Clustering and shared storage is necesary.

Clustering at Domino Server level (entire Server fails over)
would require Clustering at OS level and Shared Storage just like any other failover solution for aplication servers.

 

[woonjas]

Nice thing about domino clustering is that it's totally OS/platform independant, it does not rely on shared storage etc.

It's actually possible to have domino servers running on windows, linux (even on a modded x-box ;-) ) , aix, os400, solaris in the same cluster.
Each server has it's own storage (or a volume on a SAN)
All you need to do is create replicas of the databases that you want to benefit from fail-over/load balancing on the servers in the cluster.

For more information on setting up clustering checkout the administration help database that's installed by default on your servers and your admin client.

Cheers,

Woonjas
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