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SolarisTM Failover -- Keeping Connected At All Times
By Sys Admin
News Source
Article Date: 2003-04-29
Success in today's high-tech world demands high-availability systems. Five or six 9s availability requires high-end hardware, stable operating systems, and a stable connection to the network. In SolarisTM 8, Sun introduced IP Network Multipathing.
This capability allows administrators to create a hot standby for a network interface card (NIC) or to configure several active NICs on a machine in a multipath group to back up each other. The hot standby can take over for a failed primary card in as little as 100 ms.
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