Best bet is to start by looking at the clustering and Exchange 2003 deployment docs at Microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/library is the link. Al -----Original Message----- From: Juan Ibarra [mailto:jibarra@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 11:46 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Exchange 2003 Cluster http://www.MSExchange.org/ Good morning to all, I have a few questions about an Exchange 2003 Cluster. We are looking into upgrading our current Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003. Right now we only have one server, one site. For redundancy purposes we are considering an Active/Passive cluster. Could you please tell me a best practices for setting this up? How will the fail over occur if the active node goes down? I am planning to have the log files reside on the server itself and have a Fiber Raid Array for the DBs. If the primary node fails how will the stand by node handle the logs? Thanks in advance for any information you can provide. Juan J ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------