Lync 2013 Persistent Chat HADR Part Two


PFE Richard Schwendiman  who specialises in Exchange and Lync, recently released some deep dive articles on Lync 2013.

We recently highlighted part 1.  For your viewing pleasure, here is part 2!


In part 1 of this blog we discussed the architecture and design of Lync 2013 pChat HA\DR components. Now we will discuss how this design behaves with various failures within a Lync infrastructure. These different failure scenarios are based off our Disaster Recovery diagram from part 1 (Figure 1). We will cover the following failure scenarios:

  1. Lync Front End Pool failure
  2. Complete Site Failure
  3. pChat Pool failure
  4. Site Recovery

 

Lync 2013 pChat FE Pool Failure

 

Read the rest of the article here!


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