Blueprints for High Availability 2e

Blueprints for High Availability 2e

Expert techniques for designing your system to achieve maximum availability and predictable downtime<br /> <br /> With your company's reputation and profits at stake, downtime on your 24/7 web site is not an option, nor is poor application performance. Now in its second edition, this authoritative book provides you with the design blueprints to maximize your system availability.<br /> <br /> Striking a balance between costs and benefits, the authors show you all of the elements of your computer system that can fail-as well as ways to assess their reliability and attain resiliency and high availability for each one. A unique feature is "Tales from the Field," a collection of true-to-life experiences that will help you avoid mistakes and deploy your system with confidence.<br /> <br /> Learn how to design your system to limit the impact of such problems as computer viruses, natural disasters, or the corruption of critical files and discover how to:<br /> * Implement effective backup-and-restore and tape management strategies<br /> * Arrange disks and disk arrays to avoid downtime caused by inevitable failures<br /> * Utilize technologies such as Storage Area Networks (SANs), Network Attached Storage (NAS), Virtualization, and clustering <br /> * Achieve effective application recovery after any part of the system has failed<br /> * Replicate critical data to remote systems across a network