RamoneThePoolGuy (1/31/2015)
So my main question is: given that we are in a VMWare HA environment, is clustering necessary?
A windows cluster on VMware has restrictions, you can't easily migrate the cluster VMs. In the Windows cluster the OS is protected where in VMware it is not.
RamoneThePoolGuy (1/31/2015)
I guess the main weak link if not clustering would be OS failure due to a bad update or some other issue - we do run full OS backups on the weekends and nightly differentials, although restore from tape would be time consuming to retrieve from offsite storage.
Yes, OS failure is an issue but given the time it takes to deploy and configure a VM shouldn't be an issue
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