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SPOF - Single Point Of Failure

An SPOF is a component in the system which if it fails, will cause the entire system to fail. In the FineArtOfConfiguringaCluster, one normally works to design out all SPOFs, through the use of redundancy. When all SPOFs have been eliminated, then one is only left with the much less likely event of a MultipleSimultaneousFailure.

See Also

MTTR, MTBF