Mixing Virtualization and Clustering
Finally, it is possible to have configuration including virtual items and clusters. For example, one can create a cluster of virtual servers … or some virtual cluster of servers! Based on the proposed approach there is no problem to design both these combinations. Virtual servers are simply grouped in a cluster server and in a physical server. The reusability of the artifacts is powerful in this context and it is not mandatory that the virtual and cluster group contains the same items.
Figure 8: A Cluster of Virtual Servers.