Notes/Domino 6 and 7 Forum : RE: Storage Area Network(SAN) / Network Attached Storage(NAS) FAQ

Hi there,

I'm currently involved in a European Wide Data Storage Project where we're looking at storing all our Notes Data to Netapps Filers.

From what i understood from our Message Team Manager it isn't possible to use a "shared" Voume for Notes R6 Clusters so therefor they came up with the following solution :
4 Notes R6 Clustered Servers with all a 1TB Diskarray attached...where 2 Servers are located in Maidenhead(UK) and 2 in Maarssen(NL)

I personally think it's crazy to have 4 Servers which are all serving the same data especially if it's only for 850 users.
Load Balancing might be one of the benefits but consolidation is not an option.

Wouldn't it be possible that both Servers in Maidenhead make use of one volume on their Filer and both servers in Maarssen make use of one volume on their Filer in a sort of Passive / Active Role ? (Like MSCS) that one server is handeling all requests but when the server dies for some reason the other one is becoming the active one automaticly ? Then whenever both Servers die at a location the Server in the other Location will automaticly take over the requests

Because i can't justify a real big filer only because Lotus Notes doesn't allow us to use shared volumes

Thanks

Jeroen

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