# HVM clusters

An HVM cluster is a hypervisor clustering technology utilizing KVM. Beginning with just a few basic Ubuntu boxes, VM Essentials can create a cluster of HVM hypervisor hosts complete with monitoring, failover, easy migration of workloads across the cluster, and zero-downtime maintenance access to hypervisor host nodes. All of this is backed by a highly-granular RBAC engine, and image library with automation stacks.

**Subtopics**  

- **[Features](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-B6F5194C-290E-464F-A718-232984A6E8B5.html)**
- **[Base Cluster Details](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-226C1DD5-E007-4F44-A215-2FC03C269EA5.html)**
- **[Provisioning the Cluster](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-9886AD4A-5C64-4E09-A106-B14419362757.html)**
- **[HVM stretched Cluster deployment](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-B9EF3A2F-776E-40CE-86EF-9EFC2CABF90B.html)**
- **[Provisioning a Workload](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-45B4119E-416A-43FA-B2A0-C7D52D028326.html)**
- **[HVM Cluster Networking](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-61426C77-F236-4AFF-A1E3-92893A1FAA9F.html)**
- **[HVM Cluster Storage](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-6676AECE-BA9F-442A-B834-D6C0E1E1F61F.html)**
- **[Monitoring the Cluster](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-DCBE0E82-65B3-4436-8E96-E75E7F36179D.html)**
- **[Utilizing Existing QCOW & ISO Images from an NFS File Share](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-AE35F0B9-BDF0-4A25-9E84-763F156878B7.html)**
- **[Image Prep (Windows)](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-FBB8F5A7-8358-4CB7-9C31-10D74E2F3AE7.html)**
- **[Hardware Passthrough](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-949DC89F-26C2-4028-9A1F-2616FB466736.html)**
- **[Hypervisor Console Keyboards](https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/api/document/sd00008058en_us/render?page=GUID-BCD3CA0B-5C7E-46CB-94F2-BD00465D06D3.html)**
