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PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:25 am    Post subject: newbie question Reply with quote

Voyager

Joined: 04 Mar 2004
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Location: Toronto, Canada
Hi,

Our developers are using MQ Server 5.3 and I have been asked to create a highly available solution using 2 servers (using W2K).

I am a complete newbie with MQ Server and I have few basic questions on clustering.

1. Should I use MQ Server "clustering" or Microsoft's MSCS "clustering" (it looks like the word CLUSTER has very different meaning in MQ)?

2. What are the requirements for the solutions (for example, I noticed that there is a SupportPAC (MC74) that can be installed in order to enable Microsoft's Clustering Service). Also can someone give me some good links on the "basics" of MQ?

Thank you very much for you time.

Sas
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 8:49 am    Post subject: Re: newbie question Reply with quote

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sassaidi wrote:
1. Should I use MQ Server "clustering" or Microsoft's MSCS "clustering" (it looks like the word CLUSTER has very different meaning in MQ)?


MSCS. You want failover, therefore you want hardware clustering. Therefore you want MSCS.
sassaidi wrote:
2. What are the requirements for the solutions (for example, I noticed that there is a SupportPAC (MC74) that can be installed in order to enable Microsoft's Clustering Service).

You do not need the Support pack with 5.3. MSCS support is already enabled. All of the documentation for setting up MSCS support, including requirements, are already installed on your server. Open up the Help Center.
sassaidi wrote:
Also can someone give me some good links on the "basics" of MQ?

Install the Information Center on your desktop from the Documentation CD. Start with the Manual called "Windows Quick Beginnings".

Or follow the "Documentation" link at the top of this page to the same "Windows Quick Beginnings" Manual.
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