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Multiple Simultaneous Failures

Normally an HA system is designed to eliminate all SPOFs, but is not designed to deal with multiple simultaneous failures. Therefore, a multiple simultaneous failure will likely cause a failure with a very long repair time, since it cannot be automatically recovered by the system.

See Also

MTBF, MTTR