Building Solutions with One or More HA Options
When you have the fundamental foundation in place, as described in the preceding section, you can move on to building a tailored software-driven high-availability solution. Which HA option(s) you should be using really depends on your HA requirements. The following high-availability options are used both individually and, very often, together to achieve different levels of HA:
• Microsoft Cluster Services (non–SQL Server based)
• Data replication (including peer-to-peer configurations)
All these options are readily available “out of the box” from Microsoft, from the Windows Server family of products and from Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
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