Hi,
It's my first post here so my apologies if I break any forum rules :)
I am planning to deploy Project 2010 Server on a small farm. I have four servers to play with, and I need as much availability and redundancy as possible. There will be no more than 500 users on the system. What I was thinking to do is this:
- two servers that act as web+application servers, that will hold the websites and services
- two database servers (with mirroring or clustering, TBD ... one of them could also be the AD holding all the accounts)
I don't have any prior experience with SharePoint/Project (I'm a unix admin), but I did install it once on a single-server-does-all environment. These are my concerns:
- I need to access this farm only from outside, using an external IP and FQDN. Would NLB do the trick or is there a better solution ? (software based). Can a Linux LVS box be used for this ? (sitting in front of the farm, with SNAT etc, and round robbin
connections).
- will both servers used for web+application be identical in this setup ? e.g. if one of them needs to be taken offline, will I lose any data (except the current session one), or is everything saved in database ? In the video tutorial from TechNet the PWA
seemed to be created only on one of them, which is confusing to say the least :)
I would really appreciate any insight or help. Thank you!
