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| Time: 10:14 EST/15:14 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Brian Kvalheim | ||
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In what could be a sign of things to come, Microsoft Corp. is offering a small sweetener to its Software Assurance licensing program. From this week the company will allow servers used for disaster recovery to carry copies of its Windows server software at no extra cost. A key condition is that the server must be used only for disaster recovery. Microsoft defines such servers as "cold servers", i.e. ones turned off until a disaster arises. The "cold server" provision will be applicable for the remaining term of any two- or three-year Software Assurance contract and is not perpetual. | ||
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| #1 By 1868 (141.133.144.99) at 6/4/2004 2:53:25 PM |
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Seems to me that this was just a gaint oversight in their assurance program from about 5 years ago. It's not like the company is actually using the software rathering just using a legitimate recovery method.
IMHO nothing really to see here. |
| #2 By 16302 (69.11.25.38) at 6/4/2004 10:38:40 PM |
| And what if you leave the computer off for more than 60 days and it is a domain controller? Active Directory won't survive, and the server will have to be taken out of the domain and added back in; resetting the security of the server in the process. Resetting the security then completely eliminates the possibility of the server acting as a backup in case of a disaster. |
| #3 By 19992 (69.170.13.208) at 6/6/2004 10:08:27 AM |
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If you have a DR plan in place and expect to benefit from the cold iron solution MS has addressed here, you should have DCs at each location which should help to ensure that the AD environment is healthy anyway. Aside from that, there are ways to bring up the cold server without any data loss. Clustering works, as does using snapshots (not Ghost or naything like that). But in a SAN environment (EMC for sure, dunno about others) you can take snapshots (BCVs) of your running system and transfer it to the remote site and resume services there. Or you can use something like Egenera where the software is truly not tied to the server. |
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