Hi everyone, I am new here, and I did search the forums for DR solutions and basically got this idea, and would like to fly it by your expert opinions.
I would have a primary BES, and a DR BES, I would place the DB files on a SAN, and then let the Primary use that, install the DR BES, use the same name as the primary BES server, and point to the DB files on the SAN. I would also stop the blackberry service on the DR BES, and just start that whenever the primary failed.
You got it, just make sure to set the services on the DR BES to manual startup. Just incase the DR BES gets rebooted you don't want the services starting on their own.
Is it Exchange, Domino or Groupwise? It's a relevant question because BES for Domino uses Domino databases on the BES server ("state databases") which would need to be replicated in case of failover.