SysAdmin Talk

High availability solutions do not magically guarantee the safety and availability of your systems even if they’re working flawlessly. That n+1 failover cluster you spent all that money to build? It could just be an impressively expensive disaster waiting to happen.

This article will not talk about the obvious tenets of a successful high availability deployment. I’m going to assume everyone reading this has taken “HA 101″.

At the moment, I’m working in Red Gate’s Exchange Server Archiver team. One of the great things about the way we work is that I sit just across from Scott, who’s one of our sales guys, so as a developer I get to hear what customers and potential customers are asking about, what they wish we did, and what they love.