The Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager offers various high availability features which can be applied in a granular manner, from the level of a single virtual machine up to protection against multiple host failure scenarios. In addition, you can protect your virtual machines against various failures by combining virtual machine high availability with out of band power management, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager's failure detection and failure recovery solutions.

This lab enables you to configure virtual machine high availability, and demonstrates its use in several common enterprise scenarios. It is assumed that you have successfully completed the basic labs, meaning that you have correctly installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and have several running virtual machines.

In addition, to successfully complete this lab you must have a power management card for each of your hosts. This lab uses the Intelligent Power Management Interface (IPMI) device as an example. If you have a different device see the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Administration Guide.