Evaluating Server Groups for High Availability Scenarios

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to examine Server Groups deployment scenarios for High Availability in the Central Management Console (CMC).

Changing the Group Membership of a Server

Changing the Group Membership of a Server

In CMC, administrators can add an existing server as a member of one server group only (exclusive server group) or as a member of multiple servers groups (non-exclusive server groups).

Definition:

You can change a server's group membership to design a system for high availability.

Adding Server to Server Group

Select from Available Servers panel on the left and then choose Add to Selection button to Add server to Server Group.

Selected Servers

Clone Servers and Configure Server Groups

In this exercise, you will clone servers and configure server groups.

Summary

  • Adjusting a server's group membership is used to design systems for high availability.
  • Select servers from the Available Servers panel and use the Add to Selection button to include them in a Server Group.