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Sorry - so DFS is out of the question. If you decide to use Linux, you can utilize it over a shared GFS or OCFS, which is a concurrent access filesystem. Then you can supply file services on both (or more) nodes. Add this to a good load balancer, and you're fine.
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Sorry - so DFS is out of the question. If you decide to use Linux, you can utilize it over a shared GFS or OCFS, which is a concurrent access filesystem. Then you can supply file services on both (or more) nodes. Add this to a good load balancer, and you're fine.

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I've seen this company that looks like it might be what I'm looking for, but I don't quite understand exactly how it works. &nbsp;Does anyone have experience with them?<br />
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<a href="http://www.polyserve.com/" rel="ugc">http://www.polyserve.com/</a>
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I've seen this company that looks like it might be what I'm looking for, but I don't quite understand exactly how it works.  Does anyone have experience with them?

http://www.polyserve.com/ [http://www.polyserve.com/]

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Thanks for your help. &nbsp;I was hoping someone might have some more info, but I guess not.
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Thanks for your help.  I was hoping someone might have some more info, but I guess not.

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I have redundant file servers that I am currently running in an active/passive cluster using Windows 2003. &nbsp;Is there a solution that would allow for an active/active configuration (3rd party suggestions are fine)? &nbsp;I can't use dfs because I need to make sure that if one file is open on one server for editing, it cannot be opened on the other for editing as well. &nbsp;Thanks!
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I have redundant file servers that I am currently running in an active/passive cluster using Windows 2003.  Is there a solution that would allow for an active/active configuration (3rd party suggestions are fine)?  I can't use dfs because I need to make sure that if one file is open on one server for editing, it cannot be opened on the other for editing as well.  Thanks!

Active/Active file server solutions?

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