Chapter 10. Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining Highly Available Servers

High availability has become something of a buzzword in the past few years in the IT sector. People were striving for many years before that to achieve “five nines,” or 99.999% server uptime. Microsoft makes it easier than ever to achieve this goal with the Network Load Balancing and Clustering services provided in Windows Server 2003.

Objectives

Microsoft has the following objectives for the high availability portion of the “Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining Server Availability” unit:

Plan services for high availability.

image Plan a high availability solution that uses ...

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