October 2019
Beginner
426 pages
10h 44m
English
HA is a characteristic of a system that never fails, thus being available at all times. However, that is only possible in an ideal world. In our world, the highest available standard is 99.9999%. To achieve such a standard, we need to have numerous parameters in place. Thus, from backup to fault tolerance and from resilience to reliability, all storage media is required to be operational so that the system as a whole is highly available.
The following table shows the HA standards:
|
Availability (%) |
Downtime per month |
Downtime per year |
|
99% |
7.20 hours |
3.65 days |
|
99.9% |
43.2 minutes |
8.76 hours |
|
99.99% |
4.32 minutes |
52.6 minutes |
|
99.999% |
25.9 seconds |
5.26 minutes |
|
99.9999% ... |
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