Architecture for Essbase Studio failover using Active-Passive with SAN replication.
Our infrastructure consists of an Active leg of a Linux application server hosting Essbase Studio and a Windows server hosting MS SQL (hosting the backend DB for Studio). Then we have True Copy/SAN replication of the storage across to the Passive server site. We only need to install Essbase Studio and MS SQL on the Active leg as when we failover to the Passive leg, the physical servers there 'read' the SAN storage replicated from the Active leg where all the binaries reside. However, we have an issue in that the Passive servers hold different IP addressed (but the same