Cluster Support in VMM
Clusters are an important resource in the virtual enterprise because they offer a highly available platform to host mission-critical virtual machines. After all, if a single host system is responsible for hosting an enterprise’s most critical systems, then that host becomes a single point of failure. To fill this gap, VMM supports both Windows Server 2008 failover clusters and VMware ESX host clusters. Using VMM’s native cluster support, administrators can move virtual machines from one physical node of a cluster to another, either manually or automatically. Being able to move virtual machines allows an administrator to patch the active node or bring it down for maintenance without impacting the mission-critical virtual ...
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