> Bo Lynch wrote: >> >>> >> Currently we are doing the low tech method. Daily and weekly backups >> both >> onsite and off along with RAID and all that other good stuff. I was just >> wondering if clustering was a better way of handling things. Thanks for >> the info. > > If you are looking at VMware, ESX(i) is the nicest of the bunch but > moderately > expensive for the full version that does clustering and live moves - and > you > also need a highly reliable iscsi disk server. But even the free version > is > very nice in terms of the management tools, low overhead, and the ability > to > overcommit the host's RAM. You could start by building shadow copies of > most of > your servers that could be activated as needed, with perhaps a few being > live > with application level failover (heartbeat, drbd, database replication, > etc.). > ESXi is also a nice lab framework for testing new thing. > > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com When you talk about the free version are your referring to Vmware server or is there a free version of Esxi? The website is a little misleading with "free trail" and such.