redundancy for a distribution server

  • Company is finally listening to me and planning to purchase some servers for redundancy purposes.

    most of it is straight forward, but one server that is causing me a few issues is the replication distribution server.

    Is clustering enough for this server, or would a (windows) cluster be compatiable with replication? If i failover in a windows cluster, will replication break? I dont have an envrionment i can test this in.

  • What are the issues you are having with replication distribution server?

    Please note that clustering is a high availability solution. Not a high performance solution.

    If the issues are related performance, clustering may not solve them.

  • we are not having problems. but i have been screaming for some form of a redundancy solution for our main sql servers and we'v been given a nice chunk of budget, so someone suggested redundancy for the Replication distributor also, as a lot of apps rely on the data we replicate and resynchronization takes 15+ hours.

    So, if the dist server goes down, i am wondering, if its in a cluster and the cluster fails over, will it have any detremental effect on replication ( performance, need resync etc etc) or will replication continue as it is right now, before the failover?

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