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August 12, 2009 12:00 AM

Q. Can I have an Active/Active Hyper-V cluster?

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A. Yes. Some clustered resources only support an Active/Passive configuration, where there is at least one node in the cluster not running any resources. With Hyper-V, you can and often will have virtual machines (VMs) running on all nodes in a cluster without any node running idle. You should ensure that there is some spare capacity on each node so that if a node fails, its VMs can be distributed to the cluster's remaining nodes.

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  • Vijay
    2 years ago
    Apr 01, 2010

    Active Active is nothing but some resources are hosted on one node and some on the other node...So there is no such documentation

  • Ken
    2 years ago
    Mar 16, 2010

    Can you point me to documentation on setting up active-active? Our current clusters are active-passive.

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