Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for server cluster environment management and failure recovery therein. Clusters of a cluster server environment are monitored by a resource manager. The resource manager maintains a standby server pool of servers from the server cluster environment. A cluster monitor monitors the clusters of servers and automatically detects server and cluster failures. An optimal recovery server from among the standby server pool is identified based on the configuration information of the failing server or the failing cluster. The identified optimal recovery server is added to the failing cluster or the cluster with the failing server, and configured based on the stored configuring information of the failed server or the failed cluster.