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Pff. were do you want to begin.<br />
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Simple said, a cluster is 2 or more machines that hold 1 specific service (service as in mail service or print server or file server). Meaning if one physical machine fails you are able to failover this to other servers without you actually interfering with it. Look at it as using hot Vmotion on a VMware server but then automatically when a server crashes,.<br />
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I can dish up some articles but my search is as good as yours.. Looking at the MCSE 2012 books is a good place to start tbh..
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Pff. were do you want to begin.

Simple said, a cluster is 2 or more machines that hold 1 specific service (service as in mail service or print server or file server). Meaning if one physical machine fails you are able to failover this to other servers without you actually interfering with it. Look at it as using hot Vmotion on a VMware server but then automatically when a server crashes,.

I can dish up some articles but my search is as good as yours.. Looking at the MCSE 2012 books is a good place to start tbh..

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what is a cluster?<br />
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what is cluster failover?<br />
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can you recommend any articles to review for hyper-v beginners?
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Related to HYPER-V:  

what is a cluster?

what is cluster failover?

can you recommend any articles to review for hyper-v beginners?

Cluster?

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.