From the field
Brace over at Double-Take Software had a great report from the field with info for those folks who are about to move their Exchange infrastructure to a new location:
"A good engineer that I worked with on a Dell project contacted me yesterday and brought up a good question. He is working with a client in New England and they are in the process of planning to move their Exchange Server to a different site subnet. Because Exchange is so tightly integrated with Active Directory there is much more to plan for with moving Exchange than there is Double-Take. However, the question is below and I have some answers from our of our own PS engineers.
"I'm working on a project where the customer needs to change the IP address of all their existing Exchange 2003 servers and move them to another subnet. I'm familiar with the process for Windows and Exchange, but how does that affect Doubletake? Are there any KB articles that might explain the process?"
If using the DTAM functionality within Double-Take it should be as easy as re-enabling protection once the server has been moved. "Just disable protection before doing the re-IP'ing, then go back through setting up the protection afterwards. Should probably not select the "use last configuration" or whatever that option is...since it might get the wrong IPs."
Pretty easy but as a best practice you should always contact our technical support department for any tpe of planning deployment just to verify potential changes being made. Double-Take Technical Support can be reached at 24/7 at 800-775-8674 or 317-598-2066.
For Technical Support in the European Union +44 (0)1905 330820 +33 (0)1 47 77 15 06 +49 69 6897776-66
Or find answers online at support.doubletake.com!"
Of course, that client would probably want to check out the latest version of the Full-server Failover Option too, as that could make life a lot easier during migrations of Exchange, or anything else running on Windows.
"A good engineer that I worked with on a Dell project contacted me yesterday and brought up a good question. He is working with a client in New England and they are in the process of planning to move their Exchange Server to a different site subnet. Because Exchange is so tightly integrated with Active Directory there is much more to plan for with moving Exchange than there is Double-Take. However, the question is below and I have some answers from our of our own PS engineers.
"I'm working on a project where the customer needs to change the IP address of all their existing Exchange 2003 servers and move them to another subnet. I'm familiar with the process for Windows and Exchange, but how does that affect Doubletake? Are there any KB articles that might explain the process?"
If using the DTAM functionality within Double-Take it should be as easy as re-enabling protection once the server has been moved. "Just disable protection before doing the re-IP'ing, then go back through setting up the protection afterwards. Should probably not select the "use last configuration" or whatever that option is...since it might get the wrong IPs."
Pretty easy but as a best practice you should always contact our technical support department for any tpe of planning deployment just to verify potential changes being made. Double-Take Technical Support can be reached at 24/7 at 800-775-8674 or 317-598-2066.
For Technical Support in the European Union +44 (0)1905 330820 +33 (0)1 47 77 15 06 +49 69 6897776-66
Or find answers online at support.doubletake.com!"
Of course, that client would probably want to check out the latest version of the Full-server Failover Option too, as that could make life a lot easier during migrations of Exchange, or anything else running on Windows.
Labels: Brace, Double-Take, Exchange, migration, new subnet
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