Task 1: Determining the Fault Tolerance Approach
If an application is hosted on IIS 7.0 and considered a critical component of business operations, one technique for providing fault tolerance is load balancing. Certain load balancing solutions provide fault tolerance at the TCP/IP level—that is, if the entire machine fails, the load balancing cluster no longer sends requests to that system. However, application failures are not recognized, so client requests will still be sent to the affected server. Other load balancing solutions can provide higher levels of fault tolerance by recognizing when the application has stopped responding. Additional protection can be provided through the use of multiple IP addresses assigned to a single domain name ...
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