Virtual Server 2005 and Disaster Recovery
Virtual Server 2005 enables a form of server consolidation for disaster recovery. Rather than maintaining redundancy with costly physical servers, customers can use Virtual Server 2005 to back up their mission-critical functionality in a cost-effective way by means of virtual machines. The Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) and Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) technologies in Virtual Server 2005, coupled with the comprehensive COM API, can be used to create similar failover functionality as standard, hardware-driven disaster recovery solutions. Customers can then use the Virtual Server COM API to script periodic duplication of physical hard disks containing vital business applications to virtual machine VHDs. Additional ...
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