Specifications

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Figure 22. Adding a new VM to a Failover Cluster – Select the virtual machine host
VMM’s Intelligent Placement feature evaluates available virtualization hosts and recommends the most
suitable host using a five-star rating scale shown in Figure 22. An ideally suited host rates as five gold
stars. Hosts that VMM determines are not suitable have no gold stars. As Figure 22 shows, hosts can
be either Microsoft or VMware servers. While the number of stars indicates VMM’s Intelligent
Placement rating, you can manually override the selection and choose to place the VM on another host.
As you would expect, the VM will not be highly available if you elect to place the VM on a host that
doesn’t have Failover Clustering installation.
After reviewing VMM’s Intelligent Placement recommendations, select the host for your VM by
highlighting the desired host in the Select Virtual Machine Host window. In Figure 22, the host
WS08HV-N2.virt.contoso.com is selected. The Transfer Type indicates that this particular host is using
SAN storage. Click Next to select the path on the storage system where the VM files will be created.