A post on vmblog last month brought a great case study to my attention,

I like these types of solutions – in addition to all the great power and cooling savings we have all got used to, the flexibility that we gain when we virtualize is probably the most useful for on-going operations.

It’s great to see this extending to the storage layer but I was intrigued in this article as to what was meant by the guaranteed uptime and fault tolerance. Having delved into the Datacore architecture it’s clear that this refers to the storage subsystem. Do I take it then that this guarantee doesn’t extend to the hosts running the hypervisor?

I can only conclude that this is the case and of course, we have a suggestion…

Fault tolerant hardware is now available to run the Hyper-V stack – this means fully duplexed components with no single points of failure.

A very neat suggestion for Total Wine to keep the corks popping.