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How to Plan for Advanced Availability

The advanced availability configuration offers more resilience to server outages, higher application availability, and supports rolling maintenance with minimal end-user disruption. This configuration requires one background server, one or more standby servers, and one or more application servers. The previous configuration with primary and secondary servers is now known as the conventional configuration.

You can configure CA SDM to use either conventional or advanced availability configuration. You can also convert from one configuration to another.

The advanced availability configuration improves the overall availability of CA SDM in the following ways:

For more information about planning and configuring advanced availability, see the Implementation Guide or view the advanced availability scenarios directly from the bookshelf.

Ensure that you verify the following planning considerations before you set up the Advanced availability configuration: