Providing High Availability for Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Servers from first-tier vendors have built-in component redundancy, owing to multiple CPUs, network cards, power supplies, and so on. This means that they can last for years without failure. Your storage systems can be configured to protect your data against single or even multiple simultaneous disk failures. You can expect a server configured such as this to give reliable service for a long time, but you only have a single server. If it does fail, you’ve lost your data, your virtual environment, or whatever application the server is running. More important, your users have lost access to their applications, and your organization may be losing revenue. Losing a server running a single application is bad. Losing the server that hosts a number of virtual machines (VMs) could be catastrophic for your organization.