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The most significant advantage of this arrangement, beyond the obvious increase
in the expected level of availability for the Virtual Machines running on this plat-
form, is the fact that administrative actions and maintenance can now be performed
on the host nodes, with minimal interruption to the Virtual Machines running on
them. When administrative tasks such as O/S patching are necessary, the guest VMs
can be migrated over to the alternate host node, in order to facilitate maintenance.
Planning for Backup and Recovery
Windows 2008 Server backup functionality ...
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