Virtual Machine Monitoring
Windows clusters are designed to provide high availability for the workloads running on the cluster. There are resource monitors in place that report the status of the resource group to the cluster service, and these resource monitors allow the cluster service to query the resource status and take actions in case interruptions to proper functioning occur. However, resource monitors don’t offer the capability to monitor specific applications running inside the virtual machine.
In previous versions of Windows Failover Clustering (Windows Server 2008 R2 or below), there was no native capability to monitor specific applications running inside a virtual machine either. For example, for a print server running on Windows Server ...
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