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Hi experts,<br />
My client runs a server 2008 on a hp dl380 gen 7 rack server, they run a critical third party application on it. We have set up onsite backup to offsite with arcserve.<br />
They have hosted exchange.<br />
The issue i am concerned about are should the server have a motherboard failure (its 5 years old)and although we have full image backup its the 4+hour outage while we restore.<br />
Also the operation works from 9-11pm<br />
So patching and reboots is an issue.<br />
So I was thinking could a solution be something like the software doubletake and have a identical server onsite,should the main one fail it kicks over(also I see they have this asan azure option).advice appreciated.<br />
Thanks
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Hi experts,
My client runs a server 2008 on a hp dl380 gen 7 rack server, they run a critical third party application on it. We have set up onsite backup to offsite with arcserve.
They have hosted exchange.
The issue i am concerned about are should the server have a motherboard failure (its 5 years old)and although we have full image backup its the 4+hour outage while we restore.
Also the operation works from 9-11pm
So patching and reboots is an issue.
So I was thinking could a solution be something like the software doubletake and have a identical server onsite,should the main one fail it kicks over(also I see they have this asan azure option).advice appreciated.
Thanks

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Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

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