High Availability features

[uffzy]

"High Availability" does requirements to have equal servers?
I mean equal hardware.
Or it's not necessary?

 

[uffzy]

up.
quite important for me. should I buy equal pack of hardware, or it could be 2 different machines.

 

[TheSmoker]

What is it that you want to do? If you tell us what you are looking for maybe someone on the forum might help you out...

 

[rm-r]

HA (high availability) should normally be the same - the idea is if one dies the other can take the load so would need to be up to the same punishment..... dont confuse it with DR (desaster recovery) where if the main box dies you can recover your data

 

[Nindustries]

What he means is if the hardware should be exactly the same as the master server. The answer is no, anything will do. The servers just have to deliver the same service.
Read about it here: http://forums.freenas.org/threads/high-availability-freenas-setup.15867/

 

[rm-r]

anything will do for HA to work - but you also need to think about the end users - can all the machines support 300 users? if the main 12 core 32gb ram box dies and you fail over to a machine with a dual core, 8gb ram you might run into some issues - my point was more make sure all the boxs can support the load you put on them - but technically yes anything will do (as long as its supported by freenas for hardware (i learned the hard way there))