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Windows 2000 Cluster vs. UNIX

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by renslin 1 view

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I am working moving one of our critical systems to a new server. However I am getting flak from the UNIX people because I want to move it to Windows 2000 AS and use clustering with two servers and a raid box connected with fiber channel SCSI. Whichplatform do you think would be better and have the least interuption of service?

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by ong_matthew

If it is a critical system , i would recommend that you migrate whatever platform that you have over to the new hardware first then later move to a new OS.
It will be easier to identify problem should you enounter anything during the migration .

by tosh

If you want to avoid downtime and crashes: Install unix or a unix clone. We've had windows 2000 machines here... for a week... couldn't take the hits. We installed freebsd and everything is peachy

by renslin

Tosh,

You obviously don't know how to setup Windows 2000 correctly for you application. I need information from people who have experience in both OS not just focused in on one. You are apparently biased toward UNIX/Linux. My problem with using UNIX is that the time to repair a crashed system is usually doubled compared to reinstalling windows and doing a backup of the database.

Thanks anyway.

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