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Old 10-19-2010, 07:07 PM
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Hi there,

I'm looking for a bit of help!
We currently run around 20 live web servers (virtual), and last night one of out boxes crashed, bringing some important websites down.

I was wondering what kind of "DR" setup we could do to make a backup web server keep hosting the websites when the primary web server goes down.

We have got everything else sussed as far as single point of failure goes, apart from the actual web servers themselves!

Any tips and/or descriptions of setups anyone has would be much appreciated
Oh, and the web servers mainly all use IIS on Windows Server 2003, commected through Dell Switches if that makes a difference.

Thanks in advance,
Gary
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Old 10-19-2010, 08:03 PM
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Do you want this failover and failback to happen instantly and automatically, or can there be some delay and manual intervention? Also, do you want this alternate server to be at your own site or somewhere else?


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Old 10-19-2010, 08:22 PM
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Hi Ken,

I would prefer if it happened automatically as quickly as possible with as little downtime as possible. As far as switching back is concerned, i'm not too fussed either way. It's just that we don't currently have someone on standby 24 hours a day.

We are looking at both options with the servers in the same rack, or the possibility of having servers in another data centre (as were lucky enough to have two pretty good data centers near by)

The thing is, with our current infrastructure, we don't have any problems with the setup as everything runs off of redundant power and our firewalls, routers and proxies are all setup as load balanced or Master/Standby.



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Gary
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