Clustered Print Services

I am trying to justify creating a print cluster on two nodes. The cluster creation side of things is set up but I am trying to gauge the size of the storage for the printer cluster. Do I just need enough disk space for drivers? Do I need to have room for queues? We are not a large shop but we are looking to grow. I have about 30 network print devices and I can see this growing 30% - 40% over the next 18 months.

Win2k8 R2

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July 5th, 2013 6:59pm

I am trying to justify creating a print cluster on two nodes. The cluster creation side of things is set up but I am trying to gauge the size of the storage for the printer cluster. Do I just need enough disk space for drivers? Do I need to have room for queues? We are not a large shop but we are looking to grow. I have about 30 network print devices and I can see this growing 30% - 40% over the next 18 months.

Win2k8 R2

Microsoft official statement is - configue VMs to handle spooler. So instead of a doing a bare metal cluster just do a VM and configure HA and / or guest VM cluster. See:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj556313.aspx

Hope this helped :)

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July 6th, 2013 10:51am

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