On 30/1/08 08:50, "Mark Gamble" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello fellow Blackboarders.........
>
> Can I ask what steps you take to get close to 24 x 7 x 365 reliable access to
> Blackboard for your students?
>
> Do you have duplicate mirrored sytems?
> Do you have dedicated f/t technical staff working at the most fundamental
> level on server maintenance?
> What do you do if the system goes down outside normal working hours?
We provide failover capability to our database and application servers with
shared SAN storage and Veritas Cluster Services for UNIX, using Solaris
Containers for various reasons (not least being the ability to safely share
the hardware with other services).
Further details available if considered interesting.
Ceri
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Senior Solaris Platforms Engineer
Information Services
Cardiff University
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