Most suitable high availability solution

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Published on 2010-04-16T16:08:09Z Indexed on 2010/04/16 16:13 UTC
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My company is hosting a website in a server with IIS, SQL Server and a 3rd party windows service (written in C#, source code available for amendments).

We bought a new identical server, composed by: 1x Quad Core, 12GB RAM, 4x160GB SATA Raid 5, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Public IP.

We aim to put all webpages and the 3rd party windows service in an high-availability state.

After some lab-testing on how to configure Failover Clustering and Hyper-V, we have deep doubts on what the "best" solution would be, by "best" meaning maintainable and able to correctly handle a physical server failure.

Any suggestion on how we should configure the two servers?
We don't need all the configuration's step, just an hint on the right direction to follow.

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