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High Availability - a few questions



I would like to set up High Availability using 2 Xserve. The idea is that when Xserve1 dies, Xserve2 grabs the IP.

The instructions for setting up IPFailover in Apple's PDF seem pretty straight forward:

http://images.apple.com/server/pdfs/High_Availability_Admin_v10.4.pdf

...is setting up IPFailover as easy as Apple makes it out to be? What's your experience?

For the second half of the equation, I'd like to have an Apple RAID (14x750) set up with RAID-5 on both sides. They need to kept in sync so when Xserve1 (which will be connected to the left side of the RAID) dies, Xserver2 will grab the IP and chug along with the right side of the RAID.

This means I need to sync both halves of the RAID. Apple mentions rsync in their High Availability PDF, but from what I've read, this part may not be reliable given rsync issues (dhan, feel free to chime in! <G>). If rsync will work, would like to see some real life examples of how people are keeping two volumes in sync...if rsync isn't the answer, what is?

I promise to provide a report with a diagram when I'm done. :)

Thanks,
Don
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