Data Center Redundancy

The Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online data centers are built in “scale group” infrastructure to provide a high level of redundancy and scalability. The data center is built around the concept of pods, which is a grouping of multiple server racks. Each scale group is a logical grouping of servers that share responsibility for workflow, sandbox, and other asynchronous activities. Each scale group consists of six database servers; three are local, and three are remote. Each customer’s database (instance) is stored independent of other customers. Each customer can have one or more instances (for example, production and development instances); each is referred to as a tenant.

Using this architecture, each scale group can support ...

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