if you would use the ms products for an e-business-platform, datacenter is not the recommended product as os for the web-layer. there you should take an advanced server with apllication center to load-balance and replicate the webs.
on the other layers, datacenter is really great. and if you implement high-availability-solutions, you can take down a partition without stopping the services to the outside.
this shutdowns are planned, and so on, not in the sla's to achieve 99.999%.
we are working with 3 es7000 and 10 partitions with MS win2k DC-editition since February, and just to the moment i've seen one bluescreen on all machines....
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if you would use the ms products for an e-business-platform, datacenter is not the recommended product as os for the web-layer. there you should take an advanced server with apllication center to load-balance and replicate the webs. on the other layers, datacenter is really great. and if you implement high-availability-solutions, you can take down a partition without stopping the services to the outside. this shutdowns are planned, and so on, not in the sla's to achieve 99.999%. we are working with 3 es7000 and 10 partitions with MS win2k DC-editition since February, and just to the moment i've seen one bluescreen on all machines....