Need advice on building a Cyrus IMAP cluster

[Dave McMurtrie]

Michael Sims wrote:

> Overall, my general feeling is that active/active is still a bit too
> bleeding edge for me to recommend it to my boss.

Bleeding edge?  VMS had this figured out ages ago :)

> I know that it has been
> done, but it seems to be relatively uncommon.  I might try to toy around
> with it in a lab environment for kicks, but I think I'm going to lean
> towards an active/passive to be on the safe side.

That's probably a wise decision.

To be honest, if I was the decision-maker back when we rolled out the 
Cyrus cluster at Pitt I never would have done it.  The Cyrus guy at 
University of Pittsburgh (Ben Carter) is a ninja and the cluster was his 
idea.  He was confident that it would work and it did. It performed 
extremely well and to my knowledge it never suffered an outage.

Good luck with whatever solution you pursue.

Thanks,

Dave