Kolab numbers.

[Martin Konold]

Am Wednesday 07 April 2004 09:06 am schrieb Bo Thorsen:

Hi Luca, Hi Bo,

> > Did any of you tested Kolab in a clustered/HA architecture?
> > Did you think Kolab working fine in a such environment?
>
> There is no support for clustering in Kolab1.

Yes, this is correct. Kolab 1 has no builtin clustering capabilities. Though 
erfrakon presented at Cebit 2003 a working Kolab 1 High Availability Cluster.

The shared storage is imho best implemented using fiber channel or SCSI. 
Second best is USB (not suited for high performance) or a software solution 
like DRDB.

Erfrakon sofar has most experience using HP HW and shared SCSI.

> might have a bit of age, 300 users is just not a problem.

I agree with you. This is especially true because the Kolab clients use 
caching through the use of disconnected IMAP. The later limits the load on 
the server significantly.

> restore, and mirror. Just by mirroring everything on the second server,
> you would be able to switch to the other server very quickly if the first
> fails.

Regards,
-- martin

Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold

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