High Availability and Disaster Recovery

As an aspiring network professional, one of the core roles and responsibilities is to always ensure the network services and resources are always available and accessible to the users on the network. Within large organizations, many users depend on the availability of the network infrastructure to provide the availability of various network services and resources that are essential for ensuring the business is operating continuously.

In this chapter, you will explore various techniques that are commonly implemented by IT professionals to ensure their systems and networks are always up and running to provide the necessary services and resources for their users. You will dive into both high availability and various disaster recovery concepts and gain a solid understanding of how various technologies are used to ensure fault tolerance while providing maximum uptime for resources.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

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