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We are looking at implementing hyper-v failover clustering between 2 phsycal hyper-v server for redundancy. What Microsoft licensing costs are involved / software required to purchase ?<br />
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Must the 2 servers be exactly identical in terms of hardware, or could we have the failover server with less expensive &nbsp;(ex: Sata drives instead of sas, slower raid controller, etc). this is for a small installation (40 users) looking at implementing failover in case of failure of the main server, while the defective server is fixed.<br />
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Thanks.
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We are looking at implementing hyper-v failover clustering between 2 phsycal hyper-v server for redundancy. What Microsoft licensing costs are involved / software required to purchase ?

Must the 2 servers be exactly identical in terms of hardware, or could we have the failover server with less expensive  (ex: Sata drives instead of sas, slower raid controller, etc). this is for a small installation (40 users) looking at implementing failover in case of failure of the main server, while the defective server is fixed.

Thanks.

hyper-v failover clustering: licensing costs

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.

Microsoft Virtual Server

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.