Question OPDC-03
Do you support high availability/redundancy for your appliances, virtual machines, or containers?
| Weight | 40 |
| High Risk | Yes |
| Required | Yes |
| Compliant Answer | Yes |
Standard Guidance
EDUCAUSE provides no guidance here
Answering "NO"
EDUCAUSE provides no guidance here
Answering "YES"
Please state any caveats or conditions for your HA support.
Reason for Question
The focus of this question is availability. Institutions that have invested in their technology infrastructure may want to leverage it instead of commercial cloud resources. Understanding a system's high-availability capabilities and the form in which it is deployed on-premise is important in assessment system feasibility in the institution's environment.
Follow-Up Inquiries
Follow-up inquiries concerning high-availability capabilities will be institution/implementation specific.
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