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Enable cluster-aware updating

Enable cluster-aware updating - Hyper-V Tutorial

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Enable cluster-aware updating

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- [Instructor] Before I move on, I want to show you how to enable an optional feature within the Failover Cluster Manager. This optional feature is called Cluster Aware Updating. And to see why this feature is so important, consider the nature of a standalone Hyper-V host. Imagine for a moment you've got a Hyper-V machine, and it's running a few virtual machines. Now, you run Windows Update on the Host and Windows Update, install some updates, but now the server has to be rebooted in order to complete the update process. Well, when the server's rebooted, all of the virtual machines that are running on that server are also going to go offline while the server is being rebooted. Cluster Aware Updating keeps that from happening. With Cluster Aware Updating enabled, if you apply an update to a host, then all of the virtual machines are going to live migrate off to other hosts within the cluster, then the update process can complete, the host is rebooted, and then the update process moves…

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