I lost my DC yesterday due to a dimm failure on the SCSI controller. of course the part is nowhere to be found locally. So I have been thinking of ways to make sure this does not happen again. Aside from buying a spare DIMM… I know clustering is a way of joining all the same servers together so that they they are all the same clones of each other. what I would like to do is make a BDC the is a clone on the PDC. I know it can be done, its the how that eludes me. Everything Ive read so far, talks about WHY clustering is good, but now HOW to… I think I will have to change OS from 03 std to 03 ent which supports clustering and cluster them. still is there really a need to have a bdc? I have backups systems in place, but those did not help in the instance that the DC when down due to hardware failure. Its really frustrating, since I arrived here its been a battle getting everything running the way its supposed to and a simple memory chip throws a huge wrench in the gears…
any suggestions for higher availability would be helpful. we are getting ready to buy a server to mirror the one we have, its just the doing the mirroring will be the issue for me.
