Hi,
We have 2 sites at the moment. Each site has 2 servers. To reduce network load I was aiming at doing the following with a merge replication :
* configure one server at each site to be distributor and publisher
* configure the other server at each site to be a subscriber
* configure the 2 publishers to also be subscribers to each other to sync the sites.
Or even better:
* have all the servers be distributors, publishers and subscribers, so that if one dies, who cares as they all have the same configuration.
Also, I was thinking of:
* having the distributor and publishers use a DFS share replicated on both sites (or maybe the same share on each sql server ? not sure what the best practice is on this one)
However, I can't seem to find a good post / thread where it describes this kind of scenario in a step by step way nor what happens to the identity range management.
If you could share any light on this or point me to the right English terms to describe the above scenario, thanks in advance.
Olivier
PS: We only have STD edition, so peer to peer and AG are not available to US. (which is why we are using merge)
PS2: One way I could see this work is if I manually set the identity columns in the tables so that they won't overlap and make the range management manual. Then just setup publications / distributors and subscribers on each node. (But if I can dodge the manual management, it be great)