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Pritchie
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Fri Sep 02, 2005 12:51 pm Post subject:
newbie, fall-over clustering of IIS servers |
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Hi all,
OS: W2k3.
I've successfully NLB 2 IIS servers. However I now wish to create an IIS
server cluster that has fall-over redundancy across to 2 servers (due to
indexing server issues).
I wish to set up one server as a master IIS web server and have another
secondary web server as fall-over, the secondary web server should only
answers requests on the share ip address when the master server goes down.
The web files and documents on the master server will be replicated from
the
master to the secondary server using DFS (Distributed File System).
Scenario
1) Master web server up answering http requests
-> secondary server up monitoring master's condition and replicating files
using DFS.
-> secondary server does not answer http requests on shared ip addresses.
2) Master web server goes down,
-> secondary web starts to answer http requests via shared ip addresses.
-> certain scripts are kicked off to run indexes on the secondary web
server.
2) Master web server comes back up,
-> file changes on secondary web are replicated using DFS.
-> Master server does not answer http requests on shared ip addresses
until
secondary web is stopped.
Q1) Is this possible?
Q2) Can I do this using windows server 2wk3 standard? Or do I need
advanced
server?
Q4) Can I cluster the servers in a fall-over mode without specialized HW?
All my replication will be done using DFS, so there is not a need for
share
data store.
Q3) Where can I find the best how-to's for this and not pages and pages of
MS sales talk? URI's or books please.
Many thanks to all
Pritchie |
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Don Wilwol
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Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:13 am Post subject:
Re: newbie, fall-over clustering of IIS servers |
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Geo cluster maybe?
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/ServerHelp/86cd7a62-25ba-4308-b19a-babdd100b12b.mspx
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Hope it helps
dw
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"Pritchie" <info2005@remove-this-including-dot.bigbunker.com> wrote in
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| Quote: | Hi all,
OS: W2k3.
I've successfully NLB 2 IIS servers. However I now wish to create an IIS
server cluster that has fall-over redundancy across to 2 servers (due to
indexing server issues).
I wish to set up one server as a master IIS web server and have another
secondary web server as fall-over, the secondary web server should only
answers requests on the share ip address when the master server goes down.
The web files and documents on the master server will be replicated from
the
master to the secondary server using DFS (Distributed File System).
Scenario
1) Master web server up answering http requests
-> secondary server up monitoring master's condition and replicating files
using DFS.
-> secondary server does not answer http requests on shared ip addresses.
2) Master web server goes down,
-> secondary web starts to answer http requests via shared ip addresses.
-> certain scripts are kicked off to run indexes on the secondary web
server.
2) Master web server comes back up,
-> file changes on secondary web are replicated using DFS.
-> Master server does not answer http requests on shared ip addresses
until
secondary web is stopped.
Q1) Is this possible?
Q2) Can I do this using windows server 2wk3 standard? Or do I need
advanced
server?
Q4) Can I cluster the servers in a fall-over mode without specialized HW?
All my replication will be done using DFS, so there is not a need for
share
data store.
Q3) Where can I find the best how-to's for this and not pages and pages of
MS sales talk? URI's or books please.
Many thanks to all
Pritchie
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Iain Simpson
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Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:51 pm Post subject:
RE: newbie, fall-over clustering of IIS servers |
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Hi Pritchie,
Windows 2003 Server 'Enterprise' edition is required for the clustering you
describe (MSCS). However, support for IIS as a clustered resource was dropped
since w2k, as it is better suited to NLB.
HTH's,
Iain.
"Pritchie" wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all,
OS: W2k3.
I've successfully NLB 2 IIS servers. However I now wish to create an IIS
server cluster that has fall-over redundancy across to 2 servers (due to
indexing server issues).
I wish to set up one server as a master IIS web server and have another
secondary web server as fall-over, the secondary web server should only
answers requests on the share ip address when the master server goes down.
The web files and documents on the master server will be replicated from
the
master to the secondary server using DFS (Distributed File System).
Scenario
1) Master web server up answering http requests
-> secondary server up monitoring master's condition and replicating files
using DFS.
-> secondary server does not answer http requests on shared ip addresses.
2) Master web server goes down,
-> secondary web starts to answer http requests via shared ip addresses.
-> certain scripts are kicked off to run indexes on the secondary web
server.
2) Master web server comes back up,
-> file changes on secondary web are replicated using DFS.
-> Master server does not answer http requests on shared ip addresses
until
secondary web is stopped.
Q1) Is this possible?
Q2) Can I do this using windows server 2wk3 standard? Or do I need
advanced
server?
Q4) Can I cluster the servers in a fall-over mode without specialized HW?
All my replication will be done using DFS, so there is not a need for
share
data store.
Q3) Where can I find the best how-to's for this and not pages and pages of
MS sales talk? URI's or books please.
Many thanks to all
Pritchie
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Pritchie
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Mon Oct 17, 2005 4:50 pm Post subject:
Re: newbie, fall-over clustering of IIS servers |
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Thanks Iain..
Yes I would agree, NLB is better suited for IIS servers 99% of the time,
however we also have a index server (not MS) that runs locally which
documents are uploaded and indexed to. So the plan was to have one server
running with a current index, and fallover cluster if the primary server
went down. The secondary server's index being built from scratch at that
point. I don't believe this is possible with w2k5 std edition servers.
We're now decided to use the firewalls to give us this flexibility.
They're
Unix, so very customisable. (Thanks goodness :o)... )
S.
"Iain Simpson" <Iain Simpson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5786A555-198A-4C38-9A40-9381EF54A3DD@microsoft.com...
| Quote: | Hi Pritchie,
Windows 2003 Server 'Enterprise' edition is required for the clustering
you
describe (MSCS). However, support for IIS as a clustered resource was
dropped
since w2k, as it is better suited to NLB.
HTH's,
Iain.
"Pritchie" wrote:
Hi all,
OS: W2k3.
I've successfully NLB 2 IIS servers. However I now wish to create an
IIS
server cluster that has fall-over redundancy across to 2 servers (due
to
indexing server issues).
I wish to set up one server as a master IIS web server and have
another
secondary web server as fall-over, the secondary web server should
only
answers requests on the share ip address when the master server goes
down.
The web files and documents on the master server will be replicated
from
the
master to the secondary server using DFS (Distributed File System).
Scenario
1) Master web server up answering http requests
-> secondary server up monitoring master's condition and replicating
files
using DFS.
-> secondary server does not answer http requests on shared ip
addresses.
2) Master web server goes down,
-> secondary web starts to answer http requests via shared ip
addresses.
-> certain scripts are kicked off to run indexes on the secondary web
server.
2) Master web server comes back up,
-> file changes on secondary web are replicated using DFS.
-> Master server does not answer http requests on shared ip addresses
until
secondary web is stopped.
Q1) Is this possible?
Q2) Can I do this using windows server 2wk3 standard? Or do I need
advanced
server?
Q4) Can I cluster the servers in a fall-over mode without specialized
HW?
All my replication will be done using DFS, so there is not a need for
share
data store.
Q3) Where can I find the best how-to's for this and not pages and
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Many thanks to all
Pritchie
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