High Availability Overview
While disasters are by their definition destructive and unpredictable, it also makes sense to make your system as resilient as possible so that you can mitigate the impact or even stop the disaster in its tracks. As mentioned in Chapter 1, the Titanic had 16 watertight compartments and a double hull so that (it was believed) it could withstand an iceberg collision. In fact, other ships had survived collisions, so it was a sound and proven practice.
There are many steps you can take to toughen your SharePoint farm to make it more resilient, and they all have different considerations. Here are the main ones you’ll consider in this chapter:
- The platform: on premises vs. the cloud, virtual vs. physical
- The database layer ...
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