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Failover

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Meaning

(computing) An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup..

Example Sentences

Horizontal scaling gives you some failover and flexibility that you normally cannot get with only vertical scaling.
while Tungsten is not heavily redundant as these systems, the ability of Lustre to support some failover can be leveraged to eliminate single points of failure.
you have to make sure you can access it or ensure it can provide some failover," says Tarzey.

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What does failover mean?

Failover means (computing) An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup..

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What is the opposite of failover?

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How do you use failover in a sentence?

Horizontal scaling gives you some failover and flexibility that you normally cannot get with only vertical scaling.

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