RE: Standby Instance questions and HA

I would not say any vendor. I have yet to have an issue with HP and failover.
Its worked every time and is relatively easy to setup and use. I have no experience with any other vendor in that area though.

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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 1:35 PM
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On Sunday 20 January 2002 06:45, Mogens Nørgaard wrote:
>
> Here's something else I've been wondering about: If the rather smart
> folks at the various Unix vendors (they're hardly any stupider than us
> on this list, do you think?) cannot get this stuff to work after having
> tried for many years - why do people then beleive that Microsoft can get
> it to work just like that? That's the beauty of people: They keep
> beleiving in the next technical fix.
>

Mogens,

Interesting you should mention that. I was the Sysadmin for a DG/UX system several years ago that we had implemted a failover system on. There have been several comments on the list this week about troubles with failover sytems not taking disk ownership when they should, taking it when they shouldn't, and it just generally not being too reliable.

These are the exact same issues I had with failover in 1995/96, and apparently none of the vendors have figured it out yet.

The only semi-reliable method to accomplish a failover was to do it manually, and even them sometimes I had to get into the nitty gritty of the CLI tools behind the interface.

Maybe they need some rocket scientists? :)

Jared

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