Chapter 7: High Availability

Terms you’ll need to understand:

√ five nines

√ failover cluster

√ failback

√ load balance

√ heartbeat

√ convergence

Techniques/concepts you’ll need to master:

√ Identify hardware components that make a computer more fault-tolerant.

√ Install and configure an active-passive failover cluster.

√ Configure failback in an active-passive failover cluster.

√ Configure network roles for an active-passive failover cluster to accommodate public and private networks.

√ Install and configure a network load balancing (NLB) cluster.

Servers provide network services and applications. Most likely, some of these servers are critical to an organization. Therefore, any downtime could be staggering to a company. Such servers that require ...

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