[CentOS] looking for alternative to SME & Clark Connect

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Wed Apr 15 15:50:12 UTC 2009


Rainer Duffner wrote:
> 
>> - if possible fail-over / high availability support.
>>
>>   
> 
> 
> For free?
> ;-)
> 
> 
>> I need to support about 15 - 30 (some part time) students, so I would
>> like to keep the costs low. If it's free, so much better. SME works
>> for most of the stuff, but it still runs on CentOS 4, and I'd prefer
>> to use 5.
>>   
> 
> 
> I have a sense of deja-vu. Didn't we have all these questions and specs
> a couple of weeks ago?

That was more about something that scaled up.  For 15 people I'd 
probably run SME server in a VMware guest on a machine doing something 
else.   And handle the high availablity by having the host use RAID1 on 
swappable disks that could be moved to a spare chassis.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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