System Fault Tolerance

System Fault Tolerance

System Fault Tolerance (SFT) is a fault tolerant system built into Netware operating systems. It is a disk mirroring system similar to RAID 1. SFT level III is a server duplexing system where if a server fails a mirrored server is ready to take its place.


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