Which windows 2008?

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I am in the position of having to by new equipment to replace aging production servers. Rather than get 'left behind' we need to get new OS with them as well.

Here is what we want to accomplish:

Network load-balancing across two WEB servers running asp.net apps
File replication across the same two servers

We do not run under a Windows Domain topology, just a work group.

1) Can we do this with Windows 2008?
2) Which version do we need?

We do not want to add the load of Domain controller to any of our servers, and we don't want to have to purchase 2 more servers to act in that role if it can be avoided at all. We only have 8 servers in this location total, and only 3 people access them (other than web-clients) so management of accounts is a non-issue for us. (Only 2 are web, the rest are database or telephony servers)



Thanks!
 
Re: Which windows 2008?

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"Roger" <rogerdev@vnet.on.ca> wrote in message
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I am in the position of having to by new equipment to replace aging
production servers. Rather than get 'left behind' we need to get new OS with
them as well.

Here is what we want to accomplish:

Network load-balancing across two WEB servers running asp.net apps

> Suggest that you cluster 2 machines - Win2003/08 works. Else use a
> hardware based network load balancer

File replication across the same two servers

> A domain environment is best for the scenario of haivng file replication
> across 2 servers.

We do not run under a Windows Domain topology, just a work group.

1) Can we do this with Windows 2008? -Yes
2) Which version do we need? - Win2008 Standard will work.


We do not want to add the load of Domain controller to any of our servers,
and we don't want to have to purchase 2 more servers to act in that role if
it can be avoided at all. We only have 8 servers in this location total, and
only 3 people access them (other than web-clients) so management of accounts
is a non-issue for us. (Only 2 are web, the rest are database or telephony
servers)



Thanks!
 
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