Chapter 11. High Availability - Reset to Good

Solutions in this chapter:

  • Understanding High Availability
  • Reset to Good
  • Configuring High Availability
  • Maintaining High Availability
  • Summary
  • Solutions Fast Track
  • Frequently Asked Questions

Introduction

One of the most frequent causes of downtime is a failure of the underlying server hardware. One of the early promises of virtualization is the ability to keep virtualized systems online and operational regardless of problems with the underlying hardware by allowing the virtual machine to run on any host in the virtual environment. If an individual host fails, it's no problem because the virtual machine can be run on another host with little to no downtime.

High availability is a design methodology ...

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