Summary

Building a highly available and fault-tolerant system requires you to carefully evaluate both your requirements and your resources to eliminate single points of failure within the system. You should evaluate each of the hardware subsystems within the overall system for fault tolerance and ensure that recovery procedures are clearly understood and practiced to reduce recovery time in the event of a failure. UPSs, redundant power supplies, redundant networking, and RAID systems are all methods for improving overall fault tolerance.

Now that we’ve covered the planning and preparation of your SBS network, it’s time to move on to the actual installation and setup of SBS. In the next part we’ll cover new installations, migrating from an existing ...

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