One can also create a physical to virtual cluster by combining VCS inside the virtual machine together with VCS running on any other physical host. This virtual-physical cluster enables VCS to monitor applications running within the guest and then fail over the application to another host. The reverse flow is also true, thus enabling the fail-over of an application running on a physical host into a VM guest machine.

A VCS cluster is formed among the VM guests and physical machines. VCS is installed on the VM guests and on different physical machines in the cluster. VM guests are connected to physical machines through the network of their VM hosts. In this case, the VM host is a physical machine on which one or more VM guests forming the cluster are hosted.

This VCS cluster manages and monitors the services and applications running on cluster nodes that can either be VM guests or physical machines. Any faulted application on one node fails over to other node that can either be a virtual machine or a physical machine.

See Standard bridge configuration.

I/O fencing support: SCSI3, Non-SCSI3, CP server based fencing is supported.