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Originally Posted by Vladimir  The clustering seemed a bit of a pain to us as well, and we are using stand by machines. We configured our machines to have dual IP's on the same interface and have access to the same bunch of NetApps. The L4 switch only looks at one set of addresses, and if a mailbox server fails, I can have the hot spare take over in about 2min. My process is make sure the failed machine is really failed (power off if necessary), turn on the fail machine IP on the standby machine, mount correct network partitions, start zimbra on backup machine. 24/7 monitoring means that we will notice the failure pretty quickly. | Sounds like most of us replying to this thread are all on the same page that the costs (cash, maintenance and time) of a RH cluster exceed the benefits from some other (quasi) HA solutions for hosting Zimbra in most cases.
All the best,
Mark
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