High availability of the management server with Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC)

WSFC is a feature of the Microsoft Windows Server operating system for fault tolerance and high availability (HA) of applications and services. It enables several computers to host shared services, and if the services fail on one node, the remaining nodes automatically take over the hosting of the services.

You can install the management server a minimum of two nodes within a cluster. One node runs the Management Server and Data Collector Server and exchanges heartbeats with the other cluster nodes. If the active management server and its related services stop running on a node or run very slowly, the VMS services start running on another node in the cluster.

For more information about WSFC, refer to the Microsoft documentation (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh270278).