A SharePoint High Availability plan is necessary. It is assurance that your content is always available.

1. Why SharePoint High Availability is Necessary
On a day to day basis it’s likely that your end users are satisfied with your SharePoint
environment. But what happens when there is a power outage or some sort of natural
disaster? It’s likely that when that happens, the end users are no longer very satisfied.
When there is an outage it results in a domino effect that impacts your business.
Continuity of operations is halted, employees and end users don’t have access to
important content and information that is needed, and your credibility is affected and in
turn the success of your business is negatively impacted.
This is why a SharePoint High Availability plan is necessary. It is assurance that your
content is always available. It requires a plan for ensuring that a data system is
continuously operational and live. This type of plan is typically applied to your
company’s most critical content, the content that you cannot afford to be unavailable.
In today’s business world it is more important than ever that content be constantly
available due to less tolerance for down time of any kind. Business processes are
increasingly technology dependent and the expectance is that there be 24x7x365
availability. With no manual procedures to fall back on, a power outage has a
significantly large impact on operations and revenue.
Therefore, critical content requires the implementation of an additional safety net in the
event of a planned or unplanned outage. Metalogix Replicator can set up your farms so
that loss of content is no longer a fear and high availability becomes a reality. Using
Metalogix Replicator, you can set up an active-active failover environment to ensure that
when one farm goes down your other farms continue to function updating your content.
This allows for live, real-time access to all those vital goodies your SharePoint holds.
Adaptive replication allows all of your changes to be replicated between all of your
connected farms in real-time. This means that you will have live replicas of all of your
content. In the event of a power outage, the remainder of your farms will continue to
function regularly, capture all changes, and replicate these changes over once your
crashed farm is back up.
Metalogix Replicator isn’t only effective for when you have an unexpected outage, it’s
also key for planned outages, including upgrades. It works across versions of SharePoint
so that you can upgrade your SharePoint farms one by one, without losing access to your
content and without losing the ability to replicate that content.
About the Author:
Metalogix provides adaptive replication solutions that allow all of your changes to be
replicated between all of your connected farms in real-time. For more information visit
http://www.metalogix.com.