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June 30, 2009 12:00 AM

Q. If I use Standby Continuous Replication (SCR) with Exchange Server 2007, can I fail over individual storage groups on the source server or do I have to fail over all storage groups?

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A. SCR doesn't use failover clustering, which means you don't need to fail over an entire resource group. This differs from technologies such as Single Copy Cluster (SCC) and Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR), which use failover clustering and implement a clustered mailbox server that fails over all storage groups on the server.

With SCR, you can selectively fail over storage groups from the source server to one of the SCR replicas because with SCR, you can have multiple replicas of a database.

There are some considerations, however, that may make you want to move all storage groups on a source to the same SCR replica. For example, if you have a source server that's part of a cluster, then ideally you would move all the storage groups to the same SCR replica so that you can use the recovercms approach to start the replicas on the target.

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  • LEE
    2 years ago
    Jun 27, 2010

    John,

    Good to see someone tackling Exchange 2007 SCR issues. I have a situation where the SCR target was installed as stand-alone server and source is CCR. I have read that Exchange must be uninstalled and reinstalled before RecoverCMS can be used in this case. However, I can not find any details about the reinstall process such as should it be reinstalled as a single-node cluster and how it should be named. Also, will the replicated SCR target databases still be valid? Any insight you have would be great appreciated. Thank you - Randell

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