Hello,

I have a customer whose requirements are as follows:

- Two isolated servers in the same domain running Windows
2000 Advanced Server.
- Each server is a different model/manufacturer with local
disk installed (ie no shared array or SAN)
- Each server has different roles eg printing on one, file
sharing on the other...
- Each server has a separate IP address and name...

They currently run Domino R5 on both systems - Domino is
clustered to replicate both ways.
This allows users to connect to either box and function
seamlessly. They connect to a pseudo name that uses DNS
round robin to determine the actual server they connect
to - this provides failover for the client.

The customer wants to migrate to Exchange 2000 Enterprise,
but is unsure if this will work in the scenario above.

They need to maintain separate physical systems and roles,
ONLY THE EXCHANGE COMPONENT will be clustered.

Is this possible?

Regards,

Tony.

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They would need a shared disk array before they could cluster with W2K
Advanced Server and Exchange 2000

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<singularity44@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hello,
>
> I have a customer whose requirements are as follows:
>
> - Two isolated servers in the same domain running Windows
> 2000 Advanced Server.
> - Each server is a different model/manufacturer with local
> disk installed (ie no shared array or SAN)
> - Each server has different roles eg printing on one, file
> sharing on the other...
> - Each server has a separate IP address and name...
>
> They currently run Domino R5 on both systems - Domino is
> clustered to replicate both ways.
> This allows users to connect to either box and function
> seamlessly. They connect to a pseudo name that uses DNS
> round robin to determine the actual server they connect
> to - this provides failover for the client.
>
> The customer wants to migrate to Exchange 2000 Enterprise,
> but is unsure if this will work in the scenario above.
>
> They need to maintain separate physical systems and roles,
> ONLY THE EXCHANGE COMPONENT will be clustered.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony.
>

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And, correct me if I am wrong, the hardware must be equal (the same)..

Niels


<singularity44@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1e15b01c2976d$71922db0$8d
f82ecf@TK2MSFTNGXA02...
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a customer whose requirements are as follows:
>
> - Two isolated servers in the same domain running Windows
> 2000 Advanced Server.
> - Each server is a different model/manufacturer with local
> disk installed (ie no shared array or SAN)
> - Each server has different roles eg printing on one, file
> sharing on the other...
> - Each server has a separate IP address and name...
>
> They currently run Domino R5 on both systems - Domino is
> clustered to replicate both ways.
> This allows users to connect to either box and function
> seamlessly. They connect to a pseudo name that uses DNS
> round robin to determine the actual server they connect
> to - this provides failover for the client.
>
> The customer wants to migrate to Exchange 2000 Enterprise,
> but is unsure if this will work in the scenario above.
>
> They need to maintain separate physical systems and roles,
> ONLY THE EXCHANGE COMPONENT will be clustered.
>
> Is this possible?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tony.
>

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