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You administer SQL Server 2008 servers on a single site. The site contains the following two SQL Server 2008 instances: - An Enterprise Edition server on a server that has a redundant array of…

The correct answer is A. Replication B. Log shipping. Snapshots are not a high availability solution no matter how many times they are included in questions about high availability. Failover Clustering would require the addition of a shared storage array. That leaves log shipping and replication. Log shipping is the weakest of…

Design an optimized high availability and disaster recovery solution

Question

You administer SQL Server 2008 servers on a single site. The site contains the following two SQL Server 2008 instances:

  • An Enterprise Edition server on a server that has a redundant array

of independent disks (RAID) 10 disk system

  • A Standard Edition server on a server that has a RAID 5 disk system

Each instance hosts a single application. You need to recommend a high-availability solution for the site to meet the following business requirements:

  • The solution can be implemented on the existing systems.
  • The database is available with minimal downtime.
  • Data loss is minimal.
  • There is minimal effect on the existing system.

What are two possible ways to achieve this goal? (Each correct answer presents a complete solution.

Options

  • AReplication
  • BLog shipping
  • CFailover clustering
  • DDatabase snapshot

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • A
    84% (27)
  • C
    6% (2)
  • D
    9% (3)

Explanation

Snapshots are not a high availability solution no matter how many times they are included in questions about high availability. Failover Clustering would require the addition of a shared storage array. That leaves log shipping and replication. Log shipping is the weakest of high availability options in SQL Server 2008. Peer-to-peer replication is viable.

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#high availability#log shipping#replication#edition constraints

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