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You want seamless virtual machine migration with fault tolerance? Try Windows Server Failover Clustering.
August 09, 2021

You want seamless virtual machine migration with fault tolerance? Try Windows Server Failover Clustering.

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Windows Server Failover Clustering

We have Hyper-V implemented as our primary hypervisor and we have also implemented failover clustering with cluster storage and multipath IO to mitigate node failure without impacting our work loads, in case of cluster node failure it seamlessly migrates workloads to other hypervisors without any downtime, the other benefit is that when we are updating hypervisors we live migrate virtual machines to different nodes in same cluster and restart one by one that results in no downtime and hassle free operation. it simply made management of virtual machines simpler and improved overall uptime of our infrastructure.
  • Seamless Live Migrations
  • Quick Migrations
  • Failover in case of Node Failure
  • Storage Migration
  • Shared nothing live migration need some improvements.
  • Cluster events are not very understandable.
  • Cluster validation.
  • Live Migrations
  • Load balancing on Cluster nodes
  • Quick Migration for powered off nodes
  • Reduced Downtime
  • Time reduction during monthly windows updates
  • VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
The licensing cost zero due to we already had license for windows server datacenter edition, the feature is included in windows license on other hand VMware HA and VMware Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery requires a license, on other hand we had a lot of experience in implementing and managing Microsoft technologies.

Do you think Windows Server Failover Clustering delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Windows Server Failover Clustering's feature set?

Yes

Did Windows Server Failover Clustering live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Windows Server Failover Clustering go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Windows Server Failover Clustering again?

Yes

I have observed while moving multiple virtual machines failover cluster starts slowing down, so we move a maximum of two live migrations at a time, but quick migration is far faster. We used it for replicas and noncritical workloads. Windows Server Failover Clustering is very well suited for small to medium-sized organizations, i.e. its good for a few hundred virtual machines. The features present in failover clustering are getting better with each iteration.