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With VDI (which includes RDS and Hyper-V), you can create personal virtual desktops that you can permanently assign to specific users.

With Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and the Hyper-V hypervisor, you will be able to provide virtual desktops (VDI) based on a client version of Windows to your users.

Since the nodes of a cluster must have the same hardware and software configuration, the updates will need to be installed through the "Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU)" console.

Since Windows Server 2012 R2, there is a new feature called "Dynamic witness" that allows to dynamically manage the voting right of the witness disk or share.

Configuring your cluster quorum is important for your cluster to function properly and for as long as possible.

Managing quorum and witness disk or share is very important when creating the cluster, because your cluster depends on it.

With VMware Workstation 8 and 9, you can easily record the screen of your virtual machines to make video tutorials (for example).

Hyper-V and the virtual machines created on this hypervisor have many settings to manage live migrations, the direct use of graphics cards, ...

With SMB 3.0, you can improve the network performance of your servers with SMB Direct, Multichannel, RDMA, ...

Have a DR (Disaster Recovery) environment for your virtual machines is essential and requires a cluster of Hyper-V Replication Broker

Failover clusters provide high availability for some Windows Server roles, but also for virtual machines of your Hyper-V servers.

In business, it's important to have some flexibility. With live migration, you can easily migrate computers from one Hyper-V server to another without stopping them first.