Tell me about it ...... "failover test.... what failover test" ;-) ----- Original Message ---- From: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com> To: gb10hkzo-nanog@yahoo.co.uk Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009 16:05:15 Subject: Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:53 AM, <gb10hkzo-nanog@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
- whether you are after an active/active or active/passive solution
In practice, active/passive DR solutions often fail. You rarely need to fail over to the passive system. When you finally do need to fail over, there are a dozen configuration changes that didn't make it from the active system, so the passive system isn't in a runable state. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004