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Many of your questions can be answered by reading the notes in
this conference. I will take a quick stab at some, but you should
go back and read the many notes that deal with your questions.
1. This has been talked about over and over in this conference. No
change to current behavior. V1.1 has IP failover that is not dependent
on broadcasts. Does not, however, provide file sharing.
2. Basic net commands should work. I have seen some that don't. But
since this is built on a GUI, that is what is generally used.
3. V1.1 has gone to manufacturing, I have heard. FRS about mid-March.
4. V1.1 supports NT4. (This was an obvious clue that you did not read
this conference.
5. Wolfpack does not have client software. They use IP addresses for
each failover group. SMS can be used to distribute Digital's client
code.
6. I have heard it stated that Digital plans to release a 'wizard' to
convert Digital Clusters to Wolfpack.
7. Writing failover scripts is often fairly trivial. How to do this is
also in the documentation. As to whether or not other databases can
work in a cluster, that is up to the db vendor to say. They should
work, but there would be some restrictions, such as only being able
to run on a single node in the cluster.
Please go back and read this conference. There is a wealth of
information in here meant to preclude the need for notes like
this.
tgc
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| Thanks for the reply, I have read this conference from the day it
started and it seems to me that there are still questions without
definitive answers (I apologize for the obvious ones like V1.1 and NT
4.0; I used the customers email directly). Some issues still remain
like:
Will MSoft support clients accessing NT Clusters without using netbios
broadcasts? I've seen "yes possibly in a service pack after 1.1 is
released" and I've seen "No, it will be part of wolfpack". I need a
definite Yes/No. Large accounts cannot just "turn on" broadcasts for
NT Clusters to function.
#2 The command NET USE [drive] \\cluster\disk does not work from the
command line. Some commands do work I agree, this seems to fail. This
customer uses batch jobs to map cluster disks, a GUI would be too time
consuming. Again, when will this work.
#3 Again, you have heard Mid March, when is the scheduled date. This
is a minor one, the customer will wait just like the rest of the world.
#4 I knew this one already, sorry.
#6 Will Digital release a wizard or not. If so, when?
#7 Will Digital provide examples on our WEB on failover script writing
for all supported databases? I think this is a good idea for us to do.
Again, for those db vendors not providing such information, it's
difficult to write such scripts and be confident that they are correct
and is an excellent opportunity for Digital to provide this.
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