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H

hackers, 531

hardware

architecture, 518 “19

availability technology, 74

backup and restore barriers, 381

DBA role in procurement, 131

disk configuration, 110 “11

disk drives , 109 “10

duplicates in case of failure, 553

failures, 562

monitoring, 702 “3

RAID, 119

recovering from failures, 487

requirements, 78, 80

selection and costs, 519

vendor information, 536

Windows Server 2003, 155

hardware-assisted backups , 221

Hardware Compatibility List. See HCL (Hardware
Compatibility List)

HBAs (host bus adapters)

booting Windows from SANs, 145

server clusters and, 105, 521

support for, 162

HCL (Hardware Compatibility List), 615

geographically dispersed clusters, 60

SANs and, 106 “7

server cluster configuration, 53

server clusters and, 160 “64

health checks, SQL Server 2000 upgrade, 592

heartbeat. See private networks (heartbeat)

help desk personnel, 43 “44

high availability, preparation, 2 “18

barriers, 18

calculating availability, 10 “11

costs, 16 “18

defining, 4

disaster recovery, 5 “6

environment assessment, 15 “16

guiding principles, 7 “8

negotiations, 13 “14

nines, 11 “13

overview of, 3 “4

prevention, 4 “5

project team, 6 “7

risk assessment, 9 “10

trade-offs, 8 “9

types of unavailability, 14

host bus adapters. See HBAs (host bus adapters)

hosting, third-party, 27 “28

hotfixes. See also service packs

adding disk to Windows 2000 Server, 194

critical, 624

emergency, 626 “27

Microsoft.com case study, 530

rules of thumb, 625 “26

server clusters, 181

testing prior to rollout, 581

when to use, 635 “36

hot-swappable drives, 110

HTML, 712

hub, server cluster design, 521