Which VM?

It is a capital purchase so you can write off a certain ammount each year against tax but its just not feasable for us to have a spare for "just in case" - that may not sound like good business from a corporate point of view but for us it may never get used before it gets to EOL, then its £1500+++ spent for no reason.

We do hold spare HDD's on the shelf in case we have a failure in the RAID array but other than that its just not viable.
 
SoundsGood said:
If you mean automatically move VMs which are unresponsive then yes you would configure a monitor and recovery steps in SCOM

If you mean just move to another host it's just a simple wizard within VMM
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Wrong, - SCVMM 2012 which was released as part of System Center 2012 has Dynamic Optimisation... so you get the equivalent of VMware's DRS out of the box with just SCVMM. You also get Power Optimisation out of the box where hosts can be powered down if the load is low.

You can still integrate SCVMM with SCOM to get really granular 'performance/resource optimisation (PRO)' - things like reacting if a PSU in a host fails, or reacting if the temperature of a component reaches a certain level, etc, etc.

Reading back your post, - you talk about VM's being unresponsive... I assume you mean guest monitoring? This is now part of the Hyper-V guest extensions. (and has been for a while)
 
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