Pro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019: Practical Guidance and Hands-On Labs

© Andy Syrewicze, Richard Siddaway 2018

Andy Syrewicze and Richard SiddawayPro Microsoft Hyper-V 2019https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4116-5_10

10. Providing High Availability for Hyper-V Virtual Machines

Andy Syrewicze¹  and Richard Siddaway²

(1)

Jenison, MI, USA

(2)

Baston, Lincolnshire, UK

 

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 ...