Setting up a few small websites/ftp on a computer and I'd like to try fail-safe clustering on it in order to maximize uptime seeing as I'm using older hardware. I've got Windows 2k Advanced Server on both machines and IIS, but when I atempt to cluster them it complains about no SCSI present. The data is mirrored on both machines, so I have no use for the "shared drive" that I see mentioned. Is it possible to set this up without the shared SCSI bus and without the $900/server software solutions? All I need is for the 'slave' machine to pickup the traffic on the designated IPs when the master stops responding. Any ideas?
For W2K Adv. server clustering, as I understand it, the two computer systems need a common disk subsystem which is normally done via a SCSI/fiber channel interface. If you don't have that, then W2K clustering won't work for you.
I would love to hear of a lower cost method though.
Maybe we can subdue a programmer into open-sourcing a solution. 
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