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failovers

failovers is the plural of failover.

Meaning of failover

Noun

failover (countable and uncountable, plural failovers)

  1. An automatic switch to a secondary system on failure of the primary system, such as a means for ensuring high availability of some critical resource (such as a computer system), involving a parallel backup system which is kept running at all times, so that, upon detected failure of the primary system, processing can be automatically shifted over to the backup.
    • Horizontal scaling gives you some failover and flexibility that you normally cannot get with only vertical scaling.2004, Gregory Nyberg, Robert Patrick, Paul Bauerschmidt, Mastering BEA WebLogic Server: Best Practices for Building and ..., page 638

Questions about failovers

What is failovers the plural of?
Failovers is the plural of failover.

Words near failovers in the dictionary

  1. Failler
  2. failles
  3. Failor
  4. Failors
  5. failover
  6. failovers
  7. failproof
  8. fails
  9. fails at life
  10. fails closed
  11. fails fast

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