Abc Failover Case

ABC’s information systems are crucial to their success. A small to medium sized business that’s trying to grow their business cannot afford to spend large sums of money improving operations, nor can spend a lot time improving it. Despite the budget and time considerations, they were clear in their pursuit to optimize operations and set themselves up for future growth.
The current infrastructure was not running efficiently as it could. The servers were taking up unnecessary space, underutilized, and causing the IT staff to spend most of their time administering them. Costs due to hardware maintenance and energy consumption was also a problem. Another issue the IT Specialist notice was a problem was the failover strategy. It was not configured in a way that could restore services in a timely manner in case of a systems failure.
To further optimize the infrastructure, it makes sense to virtualize the environment. ABC receives better hardware utilization, and reduced energy consumption. The Windows Datacenter licenses allow ABC to create unlimited instances of VMs without the need purchase more
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It provides ABC the ability to keep services running if they suffer a system failure. The VMs that are part of failover can be setup in an active/active or active/passive state, both of these options provide high availability and redundancy. ABC was setup in active/active configuration. This means all the VMs that are part of that failover cluster are providing services, and if a system fails, the other VMs will pick up the slack and continue providing services without service interruption. In an active/passive setup, one or more VMs are providing services, and if one or more of them suffers a failure the passive (backup) VM will automatically make itself an active member and start providing services with very little interruption to