Dear Community,
For my educational program I am running a project for a relative small company. To perform their services they use a Cloud environment which is hosted in a data center. The Cloud environment is hosted on 2 different geographical locations as a fail-over to prevent downtime when an problem occurs. Last year, they had some issues with the availability of this environment. Now they've started a project with the intention to improve this (the availability of the Cloud environment).
The Cloud environment exists out of Servers running virtual machines in Hyper-V. In the current situation they create replica's of these machines in case a machine fails to respond or crashes. The fail-over process is not automatic, right now. The administrator needs to receive a warning or message first, before the replica is going to run. This means the machine has a significantly downtime.
Now my question to you (the community) is:
- Isn't their a technique or solution to make your servers or virtual machines active redundant? For example when location A is going down, location B is able to keep the servers up and running so their isn't theoretically (for the user experience) any downtime.
- Or if there are no other solutions then replica's or replica's are the best solution in this case. How am I able to make the fail-over progress more automatic to minimize the downtime?
I hope you guys can help me out. Thanks.
Kevin