[olug] OT: shoot me

[William Langford]

It's severely looking like it'll be a nasty hack to make this happen.  
We pride ourselves on dirt cheap setups that do what's needed and are  
rock solid - and it's looking like high availability on the windows  
side of things is gonna involve expensive hardware for microsoft  
clustering, or expensive software to do the highavailabilty automation  
without ms clustering.

So I'm seeing two Linux boxes with a windows server virtual machine  
and NLB configured on each - along with SQL express or ancient ms SQL  
installed. Those just act as a connection front end and pass queries  
on to a Linux based HA backend. Or possibly a windows OSS backend that  
has it's own HA stuff (skipping the VM stuff).

Mysql's clustering backend has lots of Linux love, but is listed for  
development only under windows. Postgres's SLony stuff looks to handle  
replication fine under windows, but doesn't supply automagical  
failover/heartbeat stuff. Either backend plus heartbeat under linux  
offers what's wanted, and brute forcing the matter with DRBD under  
Linux is possible as well.

So, developer status mysql cluster engine under windows, or virtual  
machine windows to a linux postgres/mysql back end. I have much more  
postgres experience.... Sooo.... Leaning that way.

I'm open to suggestions, but keep in mind my resources for the project  
will make most any admin cringe :)

Linux for the win!

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 23, 2009, at 8:17 PM, "Charles.Bird"  
<charles.bird at powerdnn.com> wrote:

> I agree with Chris, if you can hookup with a msdn subscription/ 
> bizspark or
> whatever, I'd go with 2008, R2 just came out by the way.
> I know we've had some issues with DFS on 2003 Ent., thats why we use  
> 2008
> for webfarms, it works well.
> I'll dig up some documentation whenever i get back to the office, I  
> have to
> restore a server from a backup and provision a few servers at the DC  
> asap.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Christopher Cashell <topher-olug at zyp.org 
> >wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Will Langford<unfies at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> Going through the DFS wizard on 2kas, it offers an initial two  
>>> option
>> thing
>>> for the DFS root... something as part of a domain with automatic
>> replication
>>> stuff, and a 'standard' that doesn't use active directory for file
>>> replication blah blah blah.
>>
>> Just a warning. . . having setup DFS and MSCS based services on
>> multiple variants of Windows Server, Windows 2000's support for  
>> either
>> was. . . well, rudimentary doesn't even begin to describe it.  A "sad
>> joke" would probably be fairly accurate.  It will probably cost you
>> more in time, effort, pain, and emotional anguish counseling than it
>> would to go with a newer OS release.
>>
>> If it's important enough to need clustering, I'd suggest it's
>> important enough to look at alternative options (be it different DB,
>> different OS, different OS version, or different solution entirely).
>>
>> Just my thoughts, having been through that pain before. ;-)
>>
>>> -Will
>>
>> --
>> Christopher
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