Virtualization is a great advancement to datacenters, consolidating operating systems onto a smaller number of physical boxes and providing the foundation for services such as the private cloud. However, the consolidation onto a fewer number of physical boxes can magnify the effect of a single hardware failure.

This session will look at how virtualization features can increase availability and how the virtualization technologies work. We’ll cover high availability for virtual machine workloads and provide guidance for when you should use the various technologies.

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