Mastering Microsoft® Virtualization

5.2. Disaster Recovery

There are quite a few ways to re-create an operating environment after a disaster has occurred. They span the gamut from very manual to very automatic solutions. As you can imagine, the costs also vary from relatively inexpensive to maintain and build to more expensive. You need to determine what is best for your business. I want to concentrate on a singular capability that exists within the Microsoft virtualization solution—that being what is sometimes known as a stretch or multisite cluster.

Through these first few chapters you have learned how to build the infrastructure necessary to operate a virtual machine environment. You have learned how to build and manage systems via the built-in tools that come with Windows ...