Case project 6-1: Choosing a High-Availability solution

You have been hired to set up the network and servers for a new company, using Windows Server 2012 R2. The company is investing in an application critical to the companys business that all employees will use daily. This application uses a back-end database and is highly transaction oriented, so data is read and written frequently. To simplify maintenance of the front-end application, users will run it on remote desktop servers. The owner has explained that the back-end database must be highly available, and the remote desktop servers must be highly scalable to handle hundreds of simultaneous sessions. What high-availability technologies do you recommend for the back-end database server and the remote desktop servers? Explain your answer.

Case Project 6-2 Server Requirements for a Failover Cluster

Youre setting up the application discussed in Case Project 6-1. Because the company is new, there are no servers- youre setting everything up from scratch. Describe the minimum requirements for this solution, including the number of servers and what they will be used for, the editions of Windows Server 2012 R2, the basic network configuration, and any other devices you might need. Make a drawing of the network.