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Keeping data and applications functioning 24 hours a day and seven days a week is the desired norm for critical applications today. Clustered systems have several advantages over standalone servers, including fault tolerance, high availability, scalability, simplified management, and support for rolling upgrades.
Using Symantec Storage Foundation HA for Windows as a local high availability solution paves the way for a wide-area disaster recovery solution in the future.
A high availability solution is built on top of a backup strategy and provides the following benefits:
Reduces planned and unplanned downtime.
Serves as a local and wide-area failover (rather than load-balancing) solution. Enables failover between sites or between clusters.
Manages applications and provides an orderly way to bring processes online and take them offline.
Consolidates hardware in larger clusters. The HA environment accommodates flexible fail over policies, active-active configurations, and shared standby servers.