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Virtual workloads

Virtual workload protection provides high availability to Hyper-V or ESX virtual servers. You identify your source, which is the server you want to protect. Your source can be a physical server, a virtual machine where you want to protect the data within the guest operating system, or a virtual machine where you want to protect the host-level virtual disk files (.vhd or .vmdk files). Your target is a Hyper-V or ESX server that will host a virtual machine that is a replica of the source. Double-Take Availability monitors the source for a failure. In the event of a source failure, the replica virtual machine on the target can stand-in allowing end-users to continue accessing data and/or applications.