Most of your customers know business productivity and revenues can be drastically affected if a mission-critical server, application or service fails. Indeed, one of the main objectives for IT departments everywhere is providing high availability for mission-critical resources. Toward that goal, service providers can implement high-availability alternatives in Windows Server 2008 to mitigate server outages for their Windows shop customers.
The first step in designing a Windows-based high-availability solution entails understanding the two main high-availability alternatives available with Windows Server 2008; failover clustering and network load balancing. These options tackle high availability in different ways.
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