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In article <4t4otv$4bo@duke.telepac.pt>, Henrique Martins
<hjrm@mail.telepac.pt> writes
>Hi everyone.
>
>I would like to here how important is to have similar mirror servers
>for Novell 3.12 SFT III and 4.0 SFT III.
>
I can only speak abuot SFTIII 4.1 as I don't have experience with SFTIII
3.11.


>I think that if we have equal machines it is not so safe because it
>oftem happens that if a board has a problem, many others, of the same
>batch, may well have the same problem.
>
>On the other side, of couse, on there is no problem in one maybe there
>is no batch problem and both will be OK.
>
>This apply to any peace of hardware, including disks.
>
>If mirror servers are different we will have more chances of having
>one problem but, maybe, not the same one in the other machine. But
>them how confused will SFT III be ?
>

In theory, the two servers comprising an SFT system can have different
hardware, even different processor speeds. However, my feeling is that
if you play "mix-n-match" with the two servers the maintenance is going
to be a nightmare. When the two are identical it's easy to keep drivers
etc. in step.

Also, by having differing hardware on both sides you increase the
potential for problems.

Graham
-- 
Graham Glen     graham@irving.demon.co.uk       
".. and it always was possible to measure the distance between so-called
management and the so-called creative by the time it took for a memo to go
in one direction and a half-brick to come back in the other."
        Dennis Potter