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Jim4522
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 Active to active failover assumption
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Is it assumed that in an active to active failover involving two or more nodes that there will always be a node that can receive the failover?

What happens if there isn't a node that can receive the failover because the other nodes are all maxed out?

I can understand why in an active passive failover that assumption would be valid but it seems to me that in active to active failover this would be ify?



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ASKED: April 16, 2010  11:47 AM
UPDATED: April 19, 2010  1:52 PM
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I assume that you are talking about VMs here? If the host is full, then the guest simply won't be brought online.
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Proper capacity and resource planning should mitigate this except in the case of unexpected hardware failures. With a failover cluster configured for virtualization you will no doubt have enough nodes in place to support failed hosts.

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