There are a ton of new features in Microsoft Windows Server 2008. Two of those features are cluster improvements and Hyper-V (Microsoft’s bare metal hypervisor). One of the big advantages to using virtual machines in an environment is high availability and fail over. Usually when you are talking about these topics, one of the requirements is some type of shared storage such as iSCSI of Fiber Channel. Guess what? It is possible to have Hyper-V fail-over using just clustering and a file share (no shared storage necessary). Sounds crazy I know, but Jose Barreto has posted a very detailed article (with lots of screen shots) on how to do just that. It actually only involves about 5 steps:

1. Validate the configuration
2. Create the cluster
3. Adjust the quorum configuration
4. Create the virtual machine in one of the nodes
5. Make the VM highly available

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