Vista - Virtual environment on cluster

I have been asked to provide a solution for a variety of platforms within a
single building. Fault tolerance is very imortant.

Based upon my preconceived ideas of Server 2008 Clusters and HyperV I am
thinking along the lines of 5 or 6 fairly powerful servers running as a
cluster and hosting a virtual environment into which I can then install a
variety of virtual machines.

Presumably I can hot swap out actual physical servers as required and
create, backup and delete virtual machines within the environment as needed.

Before I go and spend too much time researching all this, as it's a
deviation from our usual business area, I would be grateful if anyone could
pitch in and tell me if I'm on the right track.

Thanks.

Here's a Howto for doing it using Win2K3 and VS 2005 R2 SP1
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Here's a White paper on doing with Windows 2008 and HyperV
http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...aper_FINAL.doc

Haven't done it myself, so no words of wisdom

"wormscoffer" <wormscoffer@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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That looks pretty much like what I was thinking about - thanks!

As one of the guest machines will need to be SBS2008, and that's 64 bit
only, I'll need to use Server 2008.

Cheers.

"Tim Walsh" wrote: