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dave
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Posted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 11:43 pm    Post subject: hardware Reply with quote
Hi,
I have a stupid question. Does the two clustering server need to be exact
same machine? Is there any preference?
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Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 12:18 am    Post subject: Re: hardware Reply with quote
Simple answer - YES! Best Practice answer - YES! Real World, NO.

See
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/catalog/server/default.aspx?xslt=categoryproduct&subid=22&pgn=8b712458-b91c-4a7d-8695-23e9cd3ae95b
for hardware that is tested for compatibility.

If you have different servers, updates and performance might differ, which
could be fatal for a cluster.

As for preferences, I like HP :) (Disclaimer, I don't work for HP or Compaq
and never have). Second place is Dell, third is everyone else.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

"dave" <dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
I have a stupid question. Does the two clustering server need to be exact
same machine? Is there any preference?
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John Toner [MVP]
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:25 pm    Post subject: Re: hardware Reply with quote
To add to Rod's answer, you can configure a cluster with different hardware
and it might "work" but it will likely not be supported. Here's an article
which describes just how much memory and processor differences your cluster
nodes can have and still maintain MS support:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814607

Regards,
John

"Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]" <rod@die.spam.die.nw-america.com> wrote in
message news:ujKXvxx$EHA.3616@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
Quote:
Simple answer - YES! Best Practice answer - YES! Real World, NO.

See

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/catalog/server/default.aspx?xslt=categoryproduct&subid=22&pgn=8b712458-b91c-4a7d-8695-23e9cd3ae95b
for hardware that is tested for compatibility.

If you have different servers, updates and performance might differ, which
could be fatal for a cluster.

As for preferences, I like HP :) (Disclaimer, I don't work for HP or
Compaq
and never have). Second place is Dell, third is everyone else.

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
http://msmvps.com/clustering - Blog

"dave" <dave@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FB906738-C38D-4BF4-A80D-89C79C5682E6@microsoft.com...
Hi,
I have a stupid question. Does the two clustering server need to be
exact
same machine? Is there any preference?

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