Specifications

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At the guest level, the virtual machine can be part of a cluster in which other cluster nodes can be
virtual machines running on either the same or another host server. If a clustered virtual machine fails
then the virtual machine guest can be failed over to another cluster node. However, setting up Failover
Clustering for virtual host servers and guests can be a tricky manual process.
The integration of VMM2008 and Windows Server 2008 Failover Clustering solves this problem by
detecting the availability of Failover Clustering and automatically creates the cluster resources needed
to add the virtual machine to the to the Failover Cluster. You can see an example of adding a new VM
using Failover Clustering for high availability in Figure 14.
Figure 14. Adding Failover Clustering hosts with Virtual Machine Manager
Adding a new clustered VM is very much like creating a standard unclustered VM. However, before
creating a clustered VM you must have previously created a Windows Server 2008 Failover Cluster and
added the Windows Server Failover Cluster server to VMM. VMM 2008 will handle all configuration
steps required to add the new VM to the Failover Cluster. To create a new clustered VM, open VMM
then select the New virtual machine option from the VMM section of the Actions task pane in the far
right hand side of Figure 14. This will launch the New Virtual Machine Wizard shown in Figure 15.