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tnhafiz
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Different Hosts Location

Hi guys,

I have a customer that looking for HA features for their servers. However the scenario is a bit different.


Customer wants 2 physical servers but each server will be at the different location.

The main concern is, customer wants the second server to be in standby mode. That means if the 1st server is down, the 2nd server will take over.

So, what can I suggest to customer?what license should I provide for them?

Thank you

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HawkieMan
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In fact what you need to look into is routing as well, and how the applications accept failover to a different location.

If you have a transparent network between the locations, and automatic failover with gateways and IP routing on the second location, then you only should look into the use of a witness server to allow the sites to decide wich one is really separated away from the "world".

So without explaining the basic network setup and location addressing, you cant really get a specific answer.

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