Microsoft Exchange 2003 Standard HA on two Windows Servers
Background info:
2 VMware ESX servers each running an instance of Exchange 2003.
VM's are on SAN, all storage are on SAN.
Need:
Provide a fault tolerance, HA solution with this setup.......or something close to it.
I have installed Exchange Server 2003 on each, if you create a database on server1 it won't be replicated to server2 because they have different databases. Is there a way with Exchange 2003 Standard to replicate the databases or have HA somehow with VMware Enterprise (HA, Vmotion, etc).
Or there is no way of doing this and we have to purchase Exchange Enterprise Edition?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
2 VMware ESX servers each running an instance of Exchange 2003.
VM's are on SAN, all storage are on SAN.
Need:
Provide a fault tolerance, HA solution with this setup.......or something close to it.
I have installed Exchange Server 2003 on each, if you create a database on server1 it won't be replicated to server2 because they have different databases. Is there a way with Exchange 2003 Standard to replicate the databases or have HA somehow with VMware Enterprise (HA, Vmotion, etc).
Or there is no way of doing this and we have to purchase Exchange Enterprise Edition?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Ahhh, you are reading this;
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320220/
And if you read it again, you will see that it is ONLY supported on Virtual Server, not ESX
I am not saying it wont work, just saying that MS will not care if you have problems - but VMWare will care, and should still be able to support you.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320220/
And if you read it again, you will see that it is ONLY supported on Virtual Server, not ESX
I am not saying it wont work, just saying that MS will not care if you have problems - but VMWare will care, and should still be able to support you.
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I should add, I have a production Virtual exchange environment running at a client site. They were presented with the pros and cons and decided to go for it - so far, I have been impressed - plus, Vmware fill the blanks that MS wont as far as support goes (allegedly).
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It looks like Exchange 2003 won't be used and Exchange 2007 is the way to go.
Feeback please.
Feeback please.
On what?
Our answers are the same
VMWare running Exchange 2007 is not supported by MS - if you want HA, and you want to do it on VMWare, then you will either need to build a cluster in vmware, or better yet, use the VMWare HA kit.
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VMWare running Exchange 2007 is not supported by MS - if you want HA, and you want to do it on VMWare, then you will either need to build a cluster in vmware, or better yet, use the VMWare HA kit.
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Someone else besides red please?
Exchange 2007 has "local replication" built-in which will be great in order to avoid Exchange Enterprise licensing costs and administrative overhead.
Little downtime is fine.
I'm actually downloading a trial of IBM Lotus Domino for testing...
Exchange 2007 has "local replication" built-in which will be great in order to avoid Exchange Enterprise licensing costs and administrative overhead.
Little downtime is fine.
I'm actually downloading a trial of IBM Lotus Domino for testing...
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