1. A method comprising: synchronizing, a physical machine and a virtual machine the synchronizing comprising monitoring the physical machine, wherein the physical machine comprises a physical disk; identifying a modification to data stored in the physical disk, wherein the modification to the data is replicated to a virtual disk; consolidating the virtual disk, wherein the virtual disk is consolidated with the modification, and the consolidating the virtual disk facilitates maintenance of a current state of the data as represented at the virtual disk; in response to unavailability of the physical machine, migrating the virtual machine from the physical machine to a second physical machine, wherein the virtual machine comprises the virtual disk; and operating the virtual machine, using the virtual disk, wherein the virtual machine is configured to operate at the second physical machine as a result of the migrating.