Need HA for your Hyper-V Virtual Machines??
Going Green in IT
We can all do our part for Earth by going Green. But what exactly does going green in IT means? Watch this space as i start working on efforts on going Green in IT. But this section this morning, I came across a very important step-by-step guide which i wanted to share with you.
Now, we can all go green by reducing the amount of power needed for a server room / data center. Using energy efficient servers and server consolidation are some of the steps that can help save us power and go Green. With the release of Windows Server 2008, and the upcoming Hyper-v release, we can go Green in a big way.
By consolidating machines that are not highly utilizing its processing power with virtualization. Hyper-V allows us to consolidate numerous machines into one physical server. In Singapore' s Microsoft Innovation Centre, i was able to consolidate about 6 servers into 1 physical machine using Hyper-V. Having done this, i have on power required to power these reduced number of servers.
The problem on consolidation
Now comes the real problem. Since all my virtual machines are on 1 server now. If this server encounters hardware problem, all my virtual machines will go down. This step-by-step guide will show how you could quickly setup a cluster node and have High Availability for your virtual machines.
Yes. Its HA for virtual machines. No, your virtual machines are not clusters, its the Hyper-V host.
Have fun, try it out... Here's the guide.
/Dennis
