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Anyone know what this means in [Alpha,Beta Gamma] is this a server/ip cluster setup?
mrvl13
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Been hearing about this configuration or setup, what does Alpha,beta,gamma mean with regard to server/ip clustering or scanning a domain?
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Asif Dasl
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Dunno, it's not the names of the NICs for clustering is it? You sure it's not a superior BS you? -
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eansdad
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I know Alpha Beta Gamma is a national junior college honor society for business and technology. I would go with the naming of the clusters NICs like Asif Dasl said. -
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RobertKaucher
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This is a relatively uncommon way of designating hosts in any sort of 3-tier architecture. At least that is the way it is used where I work.
For SQL Server you might have your primary database system which has fail over to one or more beta (secondary) systems.
For an additional level of security there is a gamma system in another data center that the database is replicated to. In this instance it is not participating in the cluster. -
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Robert is that just the naming of the tiers or the actual term to describe the whole setup?
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The way we use it, the designations are for all servers of that tier. So Alphas would be any SQL Servers with live read/write access to the DBS. The Betas would be any of the fail-overs, and the Gammas would be the systems in another data center who get read only copies of the DB via log shipping or similar.Robert is that just the naming of the tiers or the actual term to describe the whole setup?