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Craig from the mailing list posted this and I thought it was interesting...
check out www.stratus.com
High-availability fault-tolerant servers. I have installed ShoreWare
Director R7.0 on their model ft4300. The server uses one Windows 2003
Server license, has two separate removable "blades" in a single
rackmount chassis and a special backplane and drivers. Director thinks
it is one server. Both blades run in "lockstep", not active/passive.
We tested the units pretty extensively with great results. Fail-over
is virtually seamless...a few milliseconds. Using the Intel PRO Set
utility that's included we setup the NICs in the same fail-over option
as the ShoreGear switches and ran extensive testing on that, too. The
MAC address that is created is based on the first NIC, but the PRO set
keeps the OS and Applications believing it is the ONLY MAC address. We
even replaced the original NIC (by replacing the blade with a third
blade as our part of our test criteria) and it still kept the original
MAC...great for ShoreTel license compliance.
check out www.stratus.com
High-availability fault-tolerant servers. I have installed ShoreWare
Director R7.0 on their model ft4300. The server uses one Windows 2003
Server license, has two separate removable "blades" in a single
rackmount chassis and a special backplane and drivers. Director thinks
it is one server. Both blades run in "lockstep", not active/passive.
We tested the units pretty extensively with great results. Fail-over
is virtually seamless...a few milliseconds. Using the Intel PRO Set
utility that's included we setup the NICs in the same fail-over option
as the ShoreGear switches and ran extensive testing on that, too. The
MAC address that is created is based on the first NIC, but the PRO set
keeps the OS and Applications believing it is the ONLY MAC address. We
even replaced the original NIC (by replacing the blade with a third
blade as our part of our test criteria) and it still kept the original
MAC...great for ShoreTel license compliance.
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