SSRS 2014 Highly Available

The objective is to setup a production environment where SSRS is highly available. According to this article, the SSRS should be installed on the failover server. This is counter-intuitive to me. Is the article correct? If so, can someone
explain the rationale behind this topography?
Link to article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522745.aspx
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

Bryan,
The article is a little confusing in that it doesn't provide a more robust justification.
Do you need to put SSRS on a failover server to provide higher availability? Of course not.
If your configuration for your primary should include SSRS to support your users then definitely follow your instincts.
What the article fails to mention is that with 8 replicas now available, some organizations are strategically locating failovers (usually disaster recovery servers) to perform double duty, as reporting servers.
For example, configure a replica that is another part of the country or the world. Perhaps your data center is located on the USA east coast and you create a replica on another office in Singapore. The replica receives continuous updates from the primary
and works as a DR solution, but... also provides "local" reporting for users. The performance for them is much faster (obviously).
Also included in SQL Server 2014 is the ability for SSRS to continue providing reporting services on a replica EVEN WHEN the connection to the primary is lost. That way your folks in Singapore still work.
Hope that helps...

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