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VMware High Availability and Fault Tolerance FAQ
VMware High Availability and Fault Tolerance limit downtime, which is a major benefit for virtualized infrastructure. But VMware HA and FT aren't turnkey features. This FAQ explains each technology. FAQ
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VMware vSphere Essentials Plus licenses surge, but SMBs want more
VMware's efforts to reach out to small and medium-sized businesses have borne fruit, says the company. But SMBs want more than just vMotion from a lower-cost licensing package. Article | 25 Oct 2010
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Understanding VMware High Availability updates in vSphere 5
VMware High Availability underwent a major overhaul in vSphere 5, and now includes simpler installation, interface enhancements and improved heartbeat monitoring. Tip
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Virtualizing vCenter Server: Worth the effort?
There are strong cases for and against virtualizing vCenter Server. In this face-off, two experts argue over which method better reduces downtime and is easier to manage. Face-off
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Using fault-tolerant systems for more resilient data centers
Live migration and fault-tolerant systems can really make your business continuity efforts shine. They're similar but are used for entirely different purposes. Tip
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VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS clustering improvements
Vsphere 4.1 introduces improved clustering affinity rules for Distributed Resource Scheduler, High Availability (HA) Application Monitoring and HA health status, among others. Tip
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When should you enable VMware Fault Tolerance?
Fault Tolerance is a great tool for availability -- provided your servers meet the stringent hardware requirements, and your use case really makes sense. Tip
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VMware focuses on stability, availability and security with vSphere 4
With vSphere 4, VMware has shifted gears, now focusing on application and infrastructure 'vServices' such as Fault Tolerance, vShield Zones, increased VM memory limits and storage and networking enhancements. Tip
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Configuring VMware High Availability for your virtual servers' needs
Avoid the need for stand-by hardware with VMware High Availability (HA). Learn what it does and how to configure it to your environment's needs with our step-by-step instructions. Tip
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Get virtualization availability via Windows clustering, VMware HA and more
There are a variety of ways to accomplish varying levels of availability among your virtual servers depending on how important they are, and they fall into different places along the availability continuum. Tip
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VMware HA (High Availability)
VMware HA (High Availability) is a utility that eliminates the need for dedicated standby hardware and software in a virtualized environment... (Continued) Word
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VMware vSphere licensing; high availability in Hyper-V R2; Oracle acquires Sun
Hear TechTarget editorial staff and expert Edward Haletky talk about vSphere's new licensing structure, whether or not Hyper-V R2 will change the virtualization landscape and more. Podcast
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Understanding VMware High Availability updates in vSphere 5
VMware High Availability underwent a major overhaul in vSphere 5, and now includes simpler installation, interface enhancements and improved heartbeat monitoring. Tip
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Virtualizing vCenter Server: Worth the effort?
There are strong cases for and against virtualizing vCenter Server. In this face-off, two experts argue over which method better reduces downtime and is easier to manage. Face-off
-
Using fault-tolerant systems for more resilient data centers
Live migration and fault-tolerant systems can really make your business continuity efforts shine. They're similar but are used for entirely different purposes. Tip
-
VMware vSphere Essentials Plus licenses surge, but SMBs want more
VMware's efforts to reach out to small and medium-sized businesses have borne fruit, says the company. But SMBs want more than just vMotion from a lower-cost licensing package. Article
-
VMware High Availability and Fault Tolerance FAQ
VMware High Availability and Fault Tolerance limit downtime, which is a major benefit for virtualized infrastructure. But VMware HA and FT aren't turnkey features. This FAQ explains each technology. FAQ
-
VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS clustering improvements
Vsphere 4.1 introduces improved clustering affinity rules for Distributed Resource Scheduler, High Availability (HA) Application Monitoring and HA health status, among others. Tip
-
When should you enable VMware Fault Tolerance?
Fault Tolerance is a great tool for availability -- provided your servers meet the stringent hardware requirements, and your use case really makes sense. Tip
-
VMware vSphere licensing; high availability in Hyper-V R2; Oracle acquires Sun
Hear TechTarget editorial staff and expert Edward Haletky talk about vSphere's new licensing structure, whether or not Hyper-V R2 will change the virtualization landscape and more. Podcast
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VMware focuses on stability, availability and security with vSphere 4
With vSphere 4, VMware has shifted gears, now focusing on application and infrastructure 'vServices' such as Fault Tolerance, vShield Zones, increased VM memory limits and storage and networking enhancements. Tip
-
Configuring VMware High Availability for your virtual servers' needs
Avoid the need for stand-by hardware with VMware High Availability (HA). Learn what it does and how to configure it to your environment's needs with our step-by-step instructions. Tip
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About VMware High Availability and Fault Tolerance
VMware High Availability, or VMware HA, is VMware's first enterprise availability product. It moves your virtual machines to another host server if the first host goes down, giving you greater uptime. VMware Fault Tolerance, or VMware FT, is VMware's second availability product and is packaged with vSphere 4.0.
Here, you'll find tips by industry experts that explain, for example, how to configure VMware HA failover levels while accounting for key configuration considerations, and how to determine which workloads don't require HA. We also offer tips that explain how to combine HA with Windows clustering and other measures to vary availability levels among your servers depending on their importance.
Even if your business doesn't have VMware HA, one of our tips explains how to achieve a certain amount of redundancy without VMware HA or VMotion.