Geo-Clustering

firehawk · 1 May 2012 at 18:23

Hi all!

does anyone know much about how to setup a Windows geocluster?
how does it work?

Basically the servers and services will be hosted in 2 countries. If only location fails, the other should take over without requiring change from the client incoming requests

anyone know how this is done and what is required?

firehawk · 1 May 2012 at 19:07

It will be SQL Server and Clustered MSMQ.

There is also a custom application (I wrote) which will be sitting on x servers per location, reading from that MSMQ (but the apps will NOT be clustered).

firehawk · 1 May 2012 at 19:18

Thanks I appreciate that. and was going to do just that - technet stuff. I've also just got a paper which talks about Geo clustering and Windows. looks interesting.

how should it work? I mean - lets say we have a server in US and one in the UK (example)

These would not be clustered, or would they be clustered?
Or would these be seperately clustered in each location?

firehawk · 1 May 2012 at 19:36

Thanks. I think option 1 sounds appealing for now. Of course, it will be clustered onsite for failover reasons, and if siteA goes down, then we have SiteB.

How would it work and what equip is required if say SiteA fails completely or SiteB fails completely, how does it "switch" the incoming requests to the working site?

firehawk · 1 May 2012 at 19:46

thanks. thats quite helpful and useful to know!
Is there a way to make this type of environment in hyperv/VM in terms of "geo clustering"? I mean, this is for testing purposes on my local network here. how can I simulate a geo site?

firehawk · 1 May 2012 at 20:15

Thanks! I appreciate that.

Due to my lack of knowledge... excuse this next question before you whack me over the head

if I have a laptop and a desktop on the same home network, would there be a way to do the geo-cluster environment?

i.e desktop represents "SiteA" and Laptop "SiteB"?