Clustering Lotus Notes and NT

Hi Bill, Should be conceptually possible. We have clusters but we do not run file and print services on it, only domino. But think of this scenario. If there's an application error on the primary Notes server, it will failover to the secondary Notesserver as it should. But if the application error causes a fatal error eg. Application error in nserver.exe , it will cause an OS error too or at the least, the server will need to be rebooted. At that point, your primary file and print services will try to failover to the secondary node as domino will be now primary. there won't be any redundacy. And depending on your server, resources will be utilised to the maximum resulting in slower perfomance. At the same time, if some domino tasks start kicking eg compaction, etc. the server's CPU is going to take a hard hit. It all depends on what you run on the domino server. Personally I prefer to leave the NT servers run only Domino and related services.