What do you recommend?

 hi all,

we going rebuild our dr site has 12 servers.  recenty, purchasd 3 dell 2950 servers 16gb ram [node1, node2 , node3] going host 12 vms. 

if build 3 nodes a/a/p cluster which node1 , node 2 host 6vms , node3 is the passive node.  so, in case node1 or node2 fails, fail node3.  (if node1 , node2 dead, guess need buy more memory on node 3 host 12 vms)

or need build 2 nodes a/p cluster 32gb ram.  node1 host 12 vms , node2 passive node.  if node1 fails, vms failover node2.


what recommend?

hank you!

either way valid...  pure a/p won't give of untilization of hardware resources.  50% sitting idle.  a/a/p, have 33% sitting idle.  in rare event of double failure, end single node trying host more resources can.

Windows Server  >  High Availability (Clustering)