we have a couple of workstations that are identical to the servers as far
as motherboard, video, ram etc. so if a server were to die we could easily
commandere the workstation and move everything over to there in about 15
minutes.
matthew
At 10:18 AM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Nope -- MUCH MUCH more -- and I've found pricing on the Vinca product --
>$4,499 per two servers. FCOL, that's rape and robbery! Only a FOOL
>would pay it when there are MUCH less expensive solutions around.
>Consider an ISP with six servers.... You'd be looking at nearly $14,000 to
>protect them all, when you COULD just mirror/RAID the drives, and have a
>scheduled backup/restore of the complete primary server to a secondary,
>nightly or even hourly. In the UNLIKELY event that a RAID system fails,
>you can change the IP addresses on the backup system, disconnect the
>primary, and be up with only one hour's data loss (or, if the RAID wasn't
>the point of failure, cable the drives into the backup box, and away you go
>with NO loss of data).
>
>And VINCA's product claims it doesn't even support IIS 4 at this time! It
>only replicates SQL and Exchange! Octopus at least provides total
>mirroring of ALL data regardless of application.... (for a price)
>
>At 09:54 AM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>I thought Octopus was only like $1000 or soo.....
>>
>>Sorry.
>>Penny
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jeff Woods [mailto:jwoods@delta.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, 08 April, 1998 9:52 AM
>>> To: ntisp@emerald.iea.com
>>> Subject: RE: NT Server Mirroring
>>>
>>>
>>> At 08:50 AM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>>
>>> >Try Octopus or....Bugger, I can't remember the other one
>>> that was good.
>>>
>>> Octopus was a FIVE FIGURE price tag the last time I looked
>>> into it. WAY
>>> out of line for a product like that.
>>>
>>> What's wrong with round-robin DNS and IIS 4.0's content replication?
>>> Sure, in a failure, you have to modify the DNS to eliminate
>>> hits to the
>>> dead server, but that's FREE....
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