One of the most important parts of a highly available Windows Server 2016 infrastructure solution is failover clustering, that will be covered and detailed explained in Chapter 7, Implementing Clustering.

Almost every organization has a business-critical IT solution. An outage of file, mail, or database servers can affect the whole organization and result in data or money loss and damage the reputation of the business. Because of this, high availability is the most important part of planning and implementing IT solutions. In this chapter, you'll learn about the concepts of disaster recovery and high availability and how to implement these solutions.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

• Disaster recovery and high availability in Hyper-V
• Implementing Storage Spaces Direct
• Implementing Network Load Balancing