Abstract: A management fabric for a server cluster may receive an indication of a failover condition in the server cluster for a virtual machine executing in the server cluster, where a first database program executing at the virtual machine communicates with one or more data storage devices that is attached to the virtual machine, and where a hostname is associated with the virtual machine. In response to receiving the indication of the failover condition, the server cluster may perform failover, including attaching the one or more data storage devices to a backup virtual machine associated with the one or more data storage devices, so that a second database program executing at the backup virtual machine is able to communicate with the one or more data storage devices, where the backup virtual machine is already executing in the server cluster, and associating the hostname with the backup virtual machine.