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The Two Kinds of Colocation Failover

The Two Kinds of Failovers

Active/Active
  • Pros
    • Global Load Balancing (GLB) supported
    • Automated fail over
      • Less down time
    • Automated or manual roll back to primary in most cases
  • Cons
    • (Generally) More expensive then active/passive fail over
    • Setup is more complex
  • Notes