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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 7 SP1
OS:
Windows 2000 SP4
Network:
Windows 2000 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
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Thread ID:
00961492
Message ID:
00961538
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>Our is going to be a RAID 5 system, any issues with it?
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>>>Has anyone heard about any problem running VFP on a server running clustering?, we're thinking about installing our clustered server and we have our applications running on VFP.
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>>>we want to know any concern we have to take care of, or any problem we might have
>>>
>>>thks
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>>Most of Our servers are Compaq clustered servers, all of our foxpro stuff is there, and AFAIK, there are no major issues, and we started running on them like 3 or 4 years ago.

I do not think You'll have problems using RAID 5, but We used RAID 01, I think.

By the way, what I think the problem is that when the server goes down, and because Foxpro is not cluster-aware, running programs will lose network connectivity for a while (some seconds), enough to make foxpro running applications crash, so is not that useful in that aspect.

Summarizing, although you will not have any problems running on the clustered server, much of it's benefits are lost, if you are planning to use the server just for foxpro applications.
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