HA for switches

Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 6:31PM
HighScalability Team in General Discussion, undefined

Hi,

Can someone teach me how you implement network switch fail over since we are paranoid for single point of failure.

For example, you have:

a dozen web servers -> switch -> DB cluster

that switch is a SPOF. How does one implement dual switch in a fail over fashion?

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