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Can Production server and DR Server run in parallel?

asked on August 9, 2016

Customer has one fully running RIO system on a production server.  They also have a complete set of DR licenses that they want to load on a DR server.  Assuming these licenses, though the components are the same, are different, both of these servers should be able to run in parallel only replicating the data to the DR server.

Is that correct?

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replied on August 9, 2016 Show version history

You will also want to verify each application's configuration page as often those variables are set in SQL or XML. So if they were replicated down, they'd still contain references to the production applications/databases.

 

Otherwise, you've got it. As long as you create license files for these new instances, replicate it down, adjust the configurations, you will be set.

 

Note, some products don't allow for unlimited instances. The Public Portal, Import Agent, Quick Fields Agent, Quick Fields, and Directory Server come to mind.

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replied on August 10, 2016

Carl,

I believe this is what I was looking for.  I appreciate the help! I'll let you know if there are any additional questions! 

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replied on August 10, 2016

As Corey's customer, I figured it might be helpful for me to weigh in here.  The original scenario in the post pertained to running a production and DR server with a separate set of DR licenses for the DR server. 

The scenario is not that we would like to run two separate servers, it is that we are replicating the production server to another virtual DR server and then we want to use the DR licenses to bring Laserfiche back online.

So in essence it would be like pulling the drives out of the production server and putting them into another chassis at our DR site.  It would be the same OS, database, LF Directory Server, and all the production licenses now sitting on a machine with a new hardware fingerprint.

We know we can't activate our production licenses on this DR server because of the hardware fingerprint mismatch.  We are also sure we can't activate our production licenses on this DR server without disabling our production environment if we attempt to test the DR server.

So we've secured a set of separate DR licenses that we can use when testing (or actually failing over) to our DR server.

What we need to know is whether we can activate these DR licenses on the DR server without impacting our production environment since we are using the same LF Directory Server. 

Thoughts?

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replied on August 9, 2016

Hi Corey,

 

A Single Rio system can have unlimited servers, that's one of the main points of Rio. Please see attached white papers for further information regarding Rio and Licensing.

 

Cheers!

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