Comments on: How could automated failover ever be justified? http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-could-automated-failover-ever-be-justified/ Thu, 23 May 2013 13:24:46 +0000 hourly 1 By: jim4522 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/how-could-automated-failover-ever-be-justified/#comment-75633 jim4522 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:23:01 +0000 #comment-75633 Technochic, I understand the value of getting the application up quickly and not waiting for the failed server to be fixed, but doesn’t that happen both when I failover to an inactive standby server, or if I failover to an active server in a cluster?

It seems to me that if I am using a standby backup server that is accomplishing nothing unless the primary server fails and my primary server has only a 2% chance of failing in its 4 year use life, and if I use this type of backup for a large number of servers then I am paying to have a lot of backup standby servers that may never do anything in 4 years. Jim 4522

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