[THIN] Re: File & Print Server Outages

Like Neil, in a high availability scenario I would say Cluster it. The
trick is that you have to define what an acceptable amount of down time
is for the services. So a out of commission File server that hosts home
dirs, data etc, may have a SLA of 4 hours of down time. (tough to
recover if you loose a mother board and don't have spares, fast backups
etc.) But if is not so important and you can accept a day then so be it.

Or if it is 24x7 type system with requirements for 4 9's I would go with
a cluster or at least replicate the home dirs. Replication can be done
on the cheap if you cant get budget for clustering. I mean replicate the
data to a secondary server, then set the home dirs via login script as
the user logs on. You can put some logic in the script to check for the
primary server and if it failed set the home dir to the secondary
server. This is not perfect of course but gets you to the 4 hour SLA.
(I prefer clustering but not every one has the budget right away)

Ron Oglesby
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-----Original Message-----
From: Braebaum, Neil [mailto:Neil.Braebaum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 4:39 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: File & Print Server Outages

I put profiles (mandatory) and home directories on MSCS clustered file
shares (same for printers, as it happens).

Not totally flawless, but generally very robust, and quickly resolvable
for
most failures.

I might add, the reason for using MSCS, isn't purely for terminal server
environments.

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Wykes [mailto:richard@xxxxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 26 June 2003 10:32
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] File & Print Server Outages
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> Hi,
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> After having a problem with one of our two File & Print=20
> server today =3D that brought down half of our Citrix users=20
> because they had no home drive, I wondered if anyone could=20
> share their thoughts on how they have their =3D systems setup=20
> to avoid outages like this.
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> Thanks
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> Richard

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