This session covers best practice design and planning for setting up a highly available and disaster tolerant SharePoint 2007 farm. The session focuses on real-world guidance for building fault tolerance into a SharePoint environment for organizations of varying sizes. Cost-effective and easy solutions are presented and compared to more complex global failover options. Specific topics include SQL Server 2005/2008 Database Mirroring, network load balancing, replication with third-party products, and backup and restore options for the farm.
- Examine how Database Mirroring techniques with SQL Server 2008/2005 can be used with SharePoint content.
- Identify how to eliminate single points of failure from a SharePoint farm.
- Learn some ‘Alternative’ techniques for making SharePoint redundant, such as through replication of content to multiple farms.