Fault Tolerance Insights

What is Fault Tolerance?

Fault tolerance is the ability of a system to continue operating properly in the event of the failure of some of its components. If a critical component fails, backup components are available to immediately take its place with no loss of data or service. This is commonly achieved through redundancy, such as using multiple hard drives (RAID) or servers that can take over if the primary server fails. It is used in mission-critical applications where downtime is unacceptable, such as in aviation, healthcare, and financial systems.

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What other technologies are related to Fault Tolerance?

Fault Tolerance Complementary Technologies

High Availability

High Availability and Fault Tolerance are closely related concepts. Fault Tolerance can be considered a stronger form of High Availability, providing continuous operation even in the face of failures.

mentioned alongside Fault Tolerance in 3% (121) of relevant job posts

Scalability

Scalability helps manage increased workload or user base without compromising performance or availability, which is important when designing fault-tolerant systems.

mentioned alongside Fault Tolerance in 6% (58) of relevant job posts

DRS

VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) can be used to manage and automatically balance computing resources in a cluster, which contributes to improving the fault tolerance of virtualized applications.

mentioned alongside Fault Tolerance in 4% (64) of relevant job posts