Chapter 38. Planning Fault Tolerance and Avoidance

Mean Time to Failure and Mean Time to Recover 1385

Protecting the Power Supply 1387

Disk Arrays 1392

Distributed File System 1398

Clustering 1398

Summary 1399

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition provides an excellent environment in which to build a truly fault-tolerant system. Of course, avoiding the faults in the first place is even better than handling them once they’ve happened, but the realistic system administrator knows that a problem will occur sooner or later, and he or she plans for it. Chapter 36 covered disaster planning in depth, so you should refer to that chapter for information on how to prepare for major problems and how to build a full disaster recovery plan to quickly ...

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