This section deals with configuring a virtual machine group and its related resource dependencies.

The following dependency graph illustrates a typical configuration for Volume Replicator on Hyper-V with MSCS:

The resources in a service group must come online and go offline in a particular order; the dependencies represent this order. In the above graph, resources must come online starting at the "bottom" and moving up the dependency lines.

In the sample configuration that is shown in the dependency graph above, the resource group is configured using the virtual machine configuration which in turn has a dependency on the RVG. RVG has a dependency on disk group (DG) and Network Name (Client Access Point) resource.