Configuring Server High Availability (SK0-005)

Welcome to the Configuring Server High Availability practice lab. In this module, you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills.

To ensure that resources are highly available on the network, additional configurations can be done to ensure high availability and disaster recovery in the event of a device outage or failure. These configurations can include configuring network interface card (NIC) teaming and network load balancing.

Network load balancing can be configured by adding an additional server with the same role installed to ensure that if the primary server fails, a failover can occur for high availability. For example, the Internet Information Services (IIS) role can be installed on both servers to create a failover for an internal website.

NIC teaming is configured by adding an additional network card to the device. The additional NIC can then be configured to share the network traffic for the device, ensuring high availability.

A further configuration that can be made to ensure resources are highly available in the event of a disaster is to configure multipathing. In essence, different network routes to the same resource are configured, ensuring the resource is available if a network device becomes unresponsive.