September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1680 pages
88h 3m
English
Another technology important in continuous availability is the ability to do DHCP failover in Windows Server 2012. Normally when a DHCP server fails, another server takes on the responsibility of managing DHCP-issued addresses. With DHCP failover, a DHCP scope can be set to transfer to another DHCP server, maintaining DHCP lease tables and maintaining the issuance of addresses for an enterprise. DHCP failover is not as complex as setting up a cluster between DHCP servers, yet provides continuous availability of IP addressing that is tightly integrated with Active Directory and DNS.
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