Chapter 10. Providing High Availability in Your Unix System

You will learn about the following in this chapter:

  • Understanding the concepts of high availability

  • How load balancing distributes services across multiple servers

  • How RAID implements data redundancy on disks

  • Providing high availability for your network

  • Techniques for using server clusters

  • The role of location redundancy in providing high availability

  • Service-specific high availability options

As more and more companies extend their businesses onto the Internet, clients and customers are coming to expect services to be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week—in other words, clients expect high availability of online services. This high-availability requirement is especially true for businesses ...

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