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Looking at the functionality of VMware vSphere 5.5 Standard Acceleration Kit with Operations Management:<br />
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What microsoft product is an alternative to this? &nbsp;If I want to go all-Microsoft and I have 2 host machines, and I install Server 2012r2 on both machines and configure a cluster and then run hyper-v VM's, what do I need to duplicate the VSPhere features, especially Fault Tolerance:<br />
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&quot;Provide continuous uninterrupted availability for applications with zero data loss in the event of server failures&quot;<br />
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Is Microsoft System Center 2012 (Standard or Datacenter) what I am looking for?<br />
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Thanks.
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Looking at the functionality of VMware vSphere 5.5 Standard Acceleration Kit with Operations Management:

http://www.vmsources.com/cart/index.php?route=product/product&path=59_61&product_id=54

What microsoft product is an alternative to this?  If I want to go all-Microsoft and I have 2 host machines, and I install Server 2012r2 on both machines and configure a cluster and then run hyper-v VM's, what do I need to duplicate the VSPhere features, especially Fault Tolerance:

"Provide continuous uninterrupted availability for applications with zero data loss in the event of server failures"

Is Microsoft System Center 2012 (Standard or Datacenter) what I am looking for?

Thanks.

Microsoft alternative to VMware vSphere 5.5 Standard Acceleration Kit with Operations Management

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

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.