Dear All,
We are looking at a solution for a custmer to help migrate his clustered EV solution which is a 2+1 cluster to building blocks. Kindly spare some expereice or details if anyone is aware of.
Current config - EV 10.0.4 with mailbox and journal archiving. two instances of EV one of mailbox archiving and one for journal. so one node is a stanby capable of taking both instances in case of failures. The cluster is a MSCS with drive letters and not mount points. Widnows 2008 R2.
The environment to migrate to is a Hyper-v vritual environment with CSV config. The EV would also be upgrade to version 11. So basically the move will be from physical to virtual machines. We are looking at building blocks as preferred solution due to ease of use and efficiency. Also we would like to destribute the load of archving to 4 nodes instead of 2 to achieve optimal performance. Also in case of any issues with a perticular node we should be able to manually move the archiving from one node to another. Due to need of real time archiving for journal mailbox we are considering 3 nodes to use for journal archiving and one node for mailbox archiving. Through we want to make sure that the mailbox archving can be moved to any node in case of a failure.
Another suggestion is to move away from drive letters to mount points.
Kindly share your experience and expertise.
Thanks