Maintaining high availability of SQL Server virtual machines…

The SQL Server support team does not support the creation of a cluster at the virtual machine level. This means you cannot create a fault-tolerant virtual machine by creating a SQL Server cluster. You can, however, create a fault-tolerant VM by creating a cluster at the host server level.

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