1. Standalone System
The simplest representation of availability is a ratio of the value of the uptime of a system to the aggregate of the values of up and down time during the observation window.
Let’s take an example. In a year (defined as 365.25 days) a solution has a single downtime lasting 24 hours on a busy working day.
So, the availability can be calculated as:
Another equation for availability is a ratio of the Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) and Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), or:
The industry practice is to call out availability in terms of “nines”. For example, 99% availability is two nines, 99.99% is termed as four nines. In our example above, the system delivered 99.73% even though it was down for entire day!
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