Is anyone here involved in this??

If so, can you give a quick low-down on whats involved, specifically how the machines need to be linked together?

am being dragged into a pretty hefty project that needs some pretty hefty hardware!.

I just need to understand what the benifits/drawbacks of clustering are (apart from the insane cost lol)

Is anyone here involved in this??

If so' date=' can you give a quick low-down on whats involved, specifically how the machines need to be linked together?

am being dragged into a pretty hefty project that needs some pretty hefty hardware!.

I just need to understand what the benifits/drawbacks of clustering are (apart from the insane cost lol)[/quote']

What are you looking to Cluster? Exchange, SQL, File Servers etc...

Do you know how many nodes you will be wanting in your Cluster as well.

I have found that MS Clustering is the easiest to setup, expecially between just 2 nodes.

If you are wanting multi-node heavy resiliance, then I'd reccomend Veritas Clustering/HA Foundation 4.3. Its a bit of a pig to learn, especially if you have no Clustering experience, and addons cost more (eg. Flashsnap for fast re-sync). We have just bought Veritas for Clustering 24 Servers together and its cost just under

Col,

I mean it when I say give me a call...

Had a great chat today with a guy talking about SAN's, virtualisation and a few other things, all very clever stuff, scalable to 300Terabytes...sharing of resources on farms etc...