Failover

Quick meaning: Failover is a noun 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.

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

you have to make sure you can access it or ensure it can provide some failover," says Tarzey.

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.

Word Forms

• failovers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stateful, backup, migration, over, fail, error.

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