Windows Tip: Clustered DHCP Servers
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises
DHCP servers are at the heart of network client availability, and I've seen administrators bend over backwards trying to build some sort of high-availability solution that can kick in when their main DHCP server fails. And believe me, seeing your average administrator try to bend over backwards isn't a pretty sight.
One company I heard about recently apparently does the following: They have two DHCP servers configured with identical scopes, but one of the servers (we'll call it the fallback) has its scopes deactivated. The administrator created a netsh script that is scheduled to run periodically on the main server and which first backs up this server's DHCP configuration and then restores the configuration onto the fallback server.
So is this a good idea? Probably not.
Read the full article here
DHCP servers are at the heart of network client availability, and I've seen administrators bend over backwards trying to build some sort of high-availability solution that can kick in when their main DHCP server fails. And believe me, seeing your average administrator try to bend over backwards isn't a pretty sight.
One company I heard about recently apparently does the following: They have two DHCP servers configured with identical scopes, but one of the servers (we'll call it the fallback) has its scopes deactivated. The administrator created a netsh script that is scheduled to run periodically on the main server and which first backs up this server's DHCP configuration and then restores the configuration onto the fallback server.
So is this a good idea? Probably not.
Read the full article here
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