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When redundancy is really important...

A customer of ours sent in a funny photo, showing how they solved one of those real-world problems that many an IT Admin must face.  So we wanted to share with you the concept of Redundant Coffee Cluster:

It does appear like one has to bring up the new active node manually, but hey - at least you are ready for when the need arises!

- Nino Bilic

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Published Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:39 AM by Exchange
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Michael Dragone said:

Hahahaha. Awesome.
May 13, 2008 2:56 PM
 

Lee said:

I love that!  However coffee should NEVER require manual intervention, it should be "always available".  CCR would be better, make coffee on both sides then don't use the excess.
May 13, 2008 3:08 PM
 

Brian Kronberg said:

How about setting Coffee Anywhere to help out your remote users?
May 13, 2008 3:28 PM
 

Deltaray said:

You windows folk are so easily amused.  We installed Linux on a coffee maker 10 years ago.
May 13, 2008 3:37 PM
 

T Man said:

I hope they are properly licensed.  I'd also add some redundant power supplies and fans, just in case.
May 13, 2008 3:52 PM
 

Dave said:

Well I'm a guest at a Microsoft building this week for a training course and they've already implemeted a stretched cluster model for the coffee. One fully functional machine on either side of the break area. They also have redundant soft drinks fridges as well.
May 13, 2008 3:55 PM
 

Fabrice said:

So simple to explain & to understand : Cluster for dummies
Have fun
May 13, 2008 5:14 PM
 

Justin said:

Hopefully the admin was forward-thinking enough to make sure the coffee grinder was part of the cluster resource.
May 13, 2008 6:37 PM
 

Jelmer said:

Nice coffee machine too ! what's brand / model? ;)
May 14, 2008 5:51 AM
 

NeilW said:

Do you think the Caffeine would upset the heartbeat between the two?
May 14, 2008 10:31 AM
 

Jay said:

In this example though, you can have both machines brewing and serving up coffee at the same time - unless there's only one outlet back there.  In that way I'd say it's a better example of load balancing than an Exchange cluster.
May 28, 2008 2:59 PM
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