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There is a flurry of information over at the Microsoft clustering blog. I'm a little late posting this as some of the sessions have been given, however all of the webcasts will be available to watch on demand. If you are new to clustering you may find one of these sessions useful: Introduction to...
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About nine months ago I promised to blog about the different high availability options available in Exchange Server 2007 . I followed up with a post on LCR but then abandoned the project. So, today lets start that series back up. This time around lets cover in detail what CCR is, how to use it and when...
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Microsoft now (for awhile) supports iSCSI for failover cluster storage ( more info here and here ), that doesn't mean however that everything works as expected. Here is a collection of helpful tips that I gathered in order to successfully get iSCSI working on a Windows Server 2003 cluster. A glimmer...
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Local Continuous Replication is an Exchange 2007 feature that provides data redundancy on a single server. The server keeps two copies of the databases so that if the primary set of databases suffer a failure due to virus scanning or hardware failure the secondary copy can be moved into place. You might...
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Windows Server 2003 MSCS clustering in VMware can provide many benefits for a lab or testing environment for the system admin on a budget. These should only be used in a non production environment. In order to be able to VMotion VMs that are clusterd you must use Raw Device Mapping (RDM). This post does...
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Harold Wong and Becky Benfield discuss how the new Exchange Server 2007 SP1 feature Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) works. Becky shows on a whiteboard how replication works between CCR, Stand alone and how flexible the feature really is. View the video here: http://msexchangeteam.com/videos/9/drandha...
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Jason Sherry at OulookExchange.com posted an article about how to a CCR cluster. He goes step by step on through the whole process with a bunch of screen shots. Check out his article here And, no there is no direct relation between exchangeexchange.com and outlookexchange.com :)
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One of the most promising new features of Exchange 2007 is Cluster Continuous Replication. This type of cluster enables new scenarios for being able to backup the "passive" node with your backup software without impacting production traffic or data. This essentially opens up your backup window...