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title: "High Availability Best Practices"
canonical: "https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/"
description: "Explore SafeKit high availability best practices: HA architecture patterns, synchronous vs asynchronous replication, clustering strategies, VIP failover, RPO/RTO, and redundancy design for Windows and Linux."
category: "best-practises"
lang: "en"
topics: "SafeKit Clustering Best Practices: HA Architecture, Replication & Redundancy"
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# High Availability Best Practices

## SafeKit Clustering Best Practices: HA Architecture, Replication & Redundancy

**Best practices for high availability clustering, replication, and redundancy**

High availability best practises | Replication best practises | Clustering best practises  
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• [High Availability Architectures & Software Clustering Best Practices](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/high-availability-architectures-and-best-practices/)<br>• [Shared Nothing vs. Shared Disk Architecture: Choosing the Best HA Cluster](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/shared-nothing-architecture-vs-shared-disk-architecture/)<br>• [Software clustering vs hardware clustering](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/clustering-software-vs-hardware-clustering/)<br>• [VM HA vs. Application HA: Choose Your Redundancy Level with SafeKit](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/vm-ha-vs-application-ha/)<br>• [High Availability and Disaster Recovery (HADR)](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/high-availability-disaster-recovery-hadr/)<br>• [HA Cluster vs. Fault Tolerant System: Choosing the Right Redundancy Strategy](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/high-availability-cluster-vs-fault-tolerant-system/)<br>• [How to Implement Redundant Servers with Simple HA Software](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/how-to-implement-redundant-servers-with-a-simple-software-windows-linux/)  |  • [Data Replication Techniques for High Availability: A Complete Comparison](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/data-replication-techniques/)<br>• [Synchronous vs. Asynchronous Replication: How SafeKit Ensures Zero Data Loss?](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/synchronous-replication-vs-asynchronous-replication/)<br>• [Byte-Level File Replication vs. Block-Level Disk Replication for HA](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/byte-level-file-replication-vs-block-level-disk-replication/)<br>• [Alternative to SQL Server Always On: HA for Express and Standard Editions](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/alternative-always-on-sql-server-express-standard-editions/)<br>• [Upgrading an Application Protected by SafeKit in an HA Cluster](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/how-to-upgrade-an-application-protected-by-safekit/)  |  • [How a Virtual IP Address (VIP) Works in High Availability Clustering?](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/how-a-virtual-ip-address-works/)<br>• [Handling Power Outages and Network Isolation in a HA Cluster](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/power-outage-and-network-isolation-in-a-cluster/)<br>• [Heartbeat, failover and quorum in a cluster](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/heartbeat-failover-quorum-windows-linux-cluster/)<br>• [SAN vs. NAS Shared Storage for Failover Clustering: A Detailed Comparison](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/san-vs-nas-shared-storage-for-a-failover-cluster/)<br>• [What are RPO and RTO? Definitions, Examples, and HA Strategies](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/what-is-rpo-and-rto-with-examples/)<br>• [Microsoft NLB vs SafeKit network load balancing](https://safekit.eviden.com/best-practises/microsoft-nlb-vmware-multicast-unicast-alternative/)