Today's servers play a critical role in everyday business. They serve up the applications, databases, and other important resources that keep the wheels of commerce rolling. When servers fail, user productivity is disrupted and potential business is placed at risk.

IT professionals address the dangers of unplanned server downtime by incorporating principles of resiliency and high availability into their Windows environments. In this presentation transcript of the "Windows Server Provisioning for HA" webcast, Stephen J. Bigelow summarizes some of the most important planning, configuration, and management issues for server high availability.

Topics covered include:

• Server hardware considerations
  
• Storage and network implications
  
• Clustering and other best practices
  
• Network monitoring and capacity planning