Hello All…
Here’s a trick question for you:D
Our customer has to locations for their offices.
(A and B), which are linked via VPN.
Location A will have Primary domino server DOmino/Acme.
Location B will have Additional domino server Domino2/Acme.
Domino/Acme is also mail server.
Now… users from both locations will move from one location to another constantly (don’t ask me why) by taking ther PC’s with them. They want to be able to access their mail on both locations.
Is CLUSTER a good choice for this with roaming users?? … I don’t really know if roaming is a good choice for this since users from location B will have to access server on location A.
Am i making any sence? I really don’t know how to go about this problem…
Do i make LN installation on each machine and setup 2 locations and still enable roaming or just replicate mail form A > B.
tnx for the replies…
Subject: two locations, two domino servers,
I’m not sure that “roaming” is relevant to the discussion. Also, Although clustering might be good, I do not see that it adds anything (other than fail-over) to your scenario.
I see two likely possibilities. First, replicate the mail files to both servers. Disk space is cheap. There would be a slight delay in getting mail to the server where it is not initially delivered.
Second, give all traveling users a local replica of their mail files. Assuming that they can access the remote server across the VPN, they should be able to replicate every 10 minutes with their home server. According to epromag.com, “IBM recommends that all of its employees work from a local replica of their mail databases”.
The mail router can continue to run on just one server. It should deliever each user’s mail to the location where they work the most.
Subject: RE: two locations, two domino servers,
Thanks a lot!!!Come 2 Slovenia i’ll buy you a beer:D
Seriously… I appretiate your help!!