Which one is good, Veritas Clustering or Windows 2000 Clustering.

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Which one is good, Veritas Clustering or Windows 2000 Clustering.

Ashish Patel-249228

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July 29, 2005 at 9:03 am

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Hi

We are planning to going from SQ*Server 2000 signal machine to clustering environment. During evaluation face we would like to know which clustering is better Veritas ( any third party ) or Window 2000 native clustering.

Please advice let me know your comment and advice

Thanks
Ashish

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K. Brian Kelley SSC Guru Points: 114642 More actions · Answer 1

There are a lot of factors that weigh into this decision, so no one is going to be able to say, "This clustering solution is best," without knowing the facts of your implementation. Can you provide a bit more details about what you're trying to do and how you're looking to set things up?

K. Brian Kelley
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Ashish Patel-249228 SSC Journeyman Points: 82 More actions · Answer 2

Thank Brain. Here is more information...

We have application, which started with small project but now it became monster. Six month back database size was 10gb now it 90gb and number of transaction is growing fast. Management would like

Support: 24 x 7 x 365

Application: 4 application server with load balancing and fail over capacity

Storage: Using in house SAN

Network: Redundancy in network.

Database: 2 node clustering (either Windows or Veritas )

Maintenance: Schedule downtime allowed.

Let me know if you need specific info.

Ashish

K. Brian Kelley SSC Guru Points: 114642 More actions · Answer 3

Microsoft Clustering Services works just fine for this. I'm not very knowledgeable on the Veritas side, I've mostly seen it cited when you want to do clustering with servers not in the same physical location.

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Mike Metcalf SSCrazy Eights Points: 8763 More actions · Answer 4

I'd agree with Brian, we have a very similar situation and manage perfectly well with MSCS. I've done some research into Veritas clustering in the past and whilst it looks good we decided to use the MS offering instead, primarily based on the cost differences.

Veritas have got some very clever software and do a lot on the virtual storage side but I've always been too afraid to ask how much it costs in a real world environment rather than something being demonstrated at a conference.

Glenn Wallis SSC Eights! Points: 811 More actions · Answer 5

For a local site implementation I would stick with MSCS - better support given for known configurations.

If you are looking at geographic clustering then you will have to look at 3rd party options (ie Veritas) as MSCS will not handle the heartbeat latency of WAN links.