Summary

Redundancy is a critical component to the way that we plan infrastructure and build servers in today's world. Windows Server 2016 has some powerful capabilities built right into it that you can utilize in your own environments, starting today! I hope that by gleaning a little more information about both Network Load Balancing, and about failover clustering, that you will be able to expand the capabilities of your organization by employing these techniques and stretching the limits of your service uptime. In my opinion, if there is any one avenue out of this chapter for you to pursue, it is the utilization of failover clustering in order to make your virtual machines redundant among multiple Hyper-V servers. This is such a powerful enhancement to a virtual server infrastructure, it will literally change the way that you work and give you some peace of mind that you didn't think was possible in a world aiming for 99.999% uptime.