Highly Available Virtual Machine

Since Windows Server 2008, Failover Clustering has supported the concept of a highly available virtual machine. Windows Server 2012 improves on the integration between Failover Clustering and Hyper-V by adding capabilities. One of the biggest improvements that Failover Clustering has made in the Windows Server 2012 time frame is the increase in scale. Windows Server 2012 supports 64 nodes in a cluster, a maximum of 8,000 virtual machines per cluster, and has a limit per node of 1,024 virtual machines.

Implementing a Highly Available Virtual Machine

Implementing a highly available virtual machine requires that you perform your specific configuration tasks through Failover Cluster Manager. Use the following procedure ...

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