Mastering Microsoft® Virtualization

5.3. The Bottom Line

Setting up a highly available environment on physical machines hosting virtual machines

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In Windows Server 2008 pre-R2 and R2 and in Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008 R2, it is possible to set up Hyper-V as a highly available service in a Microsoft Failover Cluster. This ensures that if a Hyper-V server hosting virtual machines fails for whatever reason, the virtual machines on that failed host are failed over, or restarted, on a surviving node of the Failover Cluster. The hardware configuration has several requirements in order to create a Failover Cluster that is fully supported by Microsoft. List the requirements of the configuration.

Setting up an environment with the ability to move running virtual machines ...