Cold failover cluster for repository ?

Hi,
We have Box A (infra and mid) and B(mid),
we want to use Box B for cold failover claster
Any suggestion on how to do this?
TIA

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White paper from Microsoft on this context shall you with step-by-step guidance of failover cluster for BizTalk 2010.
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Also refer this blog where authors in series of his post guides with the steps required:
Part 1: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment – Preparations
Part 2: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment–Domain Controller Installation
Part 3: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment – SQL & BizTalk Active Directory Accounts
Part 4: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment – Prepping our SQL & BizTalk Failover Clusters
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Part 6: BizTalk High Availability Server Environment–BizTalk 2010 Failover Cluster Creation
Part 7 – BizTalk High Availability Server Environment –BizTalk 2010 Installation, Configuration
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Using this method would mean that there are 4 servers to manage instead of 2 (and 2 clusters instead of 1) but I think at least on the SQL side it would be a configuration more similar to what a corporate environment would have, and creating more instances
in SQL would require less steps (no configuration in ESXi required at all, everything done on the iSCSI Target Servers)
I imagine performancewise this will not be as good as all VHDX files (from the iSCSI target server) will be located on the same VMDK and all VMs are on the same host.
Still, for a lab environment with 10 users, I can't really imagine that being too much an issue to the point where I'd actually notice any issues - happy for someone to tell me otherwise.
Would appreciate any recommendations possible, depending on recommendations I do have further questions about the actual setup of it, hence raising this as a question (for example, I started creating it as the second method but am having some issues with
networking on the iSCSI target server cluster).

No problem with running your environment on ESX because you are familiar with it. But one of the reasons Hyper-V is taking market share from VMware is because the old FUD that VMware used to throw around has all been debunked. Organizations realize
they are not giving up anything, and are often gaining things, by moving to Hyper-V.
+100500
Few reasons (except already mentioned maturity of Hyper-V that was not true 4-5 years ago)
1) Built-in Windows licensing (esp. Datacenter) that makes sense with many VMs
2) Free features inside free Hyper-V that free (or even paid) ESXi lacks (live migration of a VMs, VM replication etc)
3) "One throat to choke" in terms of support for both hypervisor OS and guest VMs OS
4) MUCH wider HCL for Hyper-V compared to what VMware has
5) Ability to control "kind of" Windows from Windows GUI (same happened before with Windows NT 4.0 takes over NetWare 4.x)
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