Proactive HA with essentials plus license?
Hi, I've just setup a small virtual infrastructure that consists of two hosts and one SAN. I've already installed the vCenterAppliance and I'm now trying to setup a cluster with "proactive HA". That...
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ESX Gateway Failover or something of a kind
Hi, I have two ESXi hosts with HA, Primary/Secondary link with separate uplink. I am not sure if it is possible to have a gateway failover. I would like my ESX hosts to switch over to the secondary...
View ArticlevSphere 6.5 FT Limitations
Hi Gurus, VMware FT has limitations. Where number of FT vm's per host and maximum vCPU's aggreagated across host is limited. Can these be adjusted? If so what's maximum that can be adjusted to?...
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Fault Tolerance across Datacenters using 2 different vCenter Servers
Hi All, If I enable FT on a VM which resides in our Primary "Datacenter A" managed by "vCenter Server A", Can the secondary VM for this FT protected primary VM reside in DR "Datacenter B" which is...
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Fault Tolerance in a vSphere Metro Cluster environment
Hello, We have a vSphere Metro Cluster configured with active/active on peer persistent 3PAR's. From a storage perspective we're continuously available (pretty much). If I understand this correctly,...
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Sum of VM CPU Utliazation
Hi,What it is mean consumed 0 ,Active 0 DRS Entitlement and Resource Delivered ? even the VM is running
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[HELP] - Decision making is hard...
Good morning guys I have a dilemma on my hands...I would like to set up an HA/DRS cluster in my workplace...I would host the main work machines on this cluster.We're talking about this sort of config:...
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vSphere HA Auto Reboot
We have a VM migrated last May 17, 2017. It has critical service running. It reside in the same cluster and migrated successfully. 4 days later vSphere HA initiated a System Auto Reboot thus created a...
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VCSA 6.5.0d and ESXi 6.5.0d HA - insufficient configured resources despite...
Hi all - I have a lab running 2 hosts in a cluster on the latest ESXi and VCSA. I have plenty of experience setting up clusters so I am a bit baffled with this one. My CPU load on each host is ~5 -...
View ArticleIssue with Windows Cluster communications dropping during Vmotion.
Good Morning, We recently received alerts from Microsoft SCOM that nodes of a cluster were not able to communicate. As it turns out, the alerts correspond to when the VMs were being migrated from one...
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6.5 Fault Tolerance. Are all virtual disks duplicated?
I have a question regarding FT in version 6.5. According to the official documentation, Primary VMs and Secondary VMs always maintain independent vmdk copies, which can be placed on different...
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Vmware fault tolerance question
Dear Users, I have a question regarding Fault Tolerance. Lets say we have two servers. On one server a windows virrtual machine is running. Upon enabling Fault tolerance, a secondary virtual machine...
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VMware License question
Dear Users, What license do I need to buy if i want to run 1 virtual machine (1 processors) in FT and 1 virtual machine in HA (1 processor).Do I need one standard license or 2 standard licenses? or...
View ArticleDoes Manually Powering Off / Shutting Down a VM Ignore the HA / VM Monitoring...
I've never been sure of the answer to this posts subject so I thought I'd better ask. So for example there's a two host cluster, HA is enabled and VM Monitoring is set to 'VM Monitoring Only'. I Remote...
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HTML access of view connection server is not encrypting password while typed
I am facing weird issue that HTML access of view connection server is not encrypting password while typed. Can anyone help me in this?
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vSphere 6.5 Host Isolation Address Selection
I have a customer with the ESXi management interface on a private VLAN, with a firewall VIP being the default gateway. If the firewall is taken offline for management, or a failover is performed, the...
View ArticleSluggish performance on application after enabling VMware 6 FT
Hi All, I'm facing a big issue with vSphere 6 regarding Fault tolerance (FT), so here's my issue:I'm running VMware vSphere 6 (the vCenter Server is Appliance) Enterprise Plus and I'm trying to turn on...
View ArticlevSphere 6.0 FT protected VM - backup via VADP - HOW?
Hi, the FT docs of vsphere 6.0 ft says you still can´t use any snapshots when using FT. But it also says, FT-protected VMs can now be backupped using VADP. Now the question: How is this possible? Are...
View ArticleFT Second VM can't be created problem
Hello everyonei'm running two ESXI 6.0 U1 on bothcurrent configuration : ESXI 1 :HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 0 @ 2.40GHzRAM : 48 GoStorage : 2 TB ESXI 2 :HP ProLiant DL380p...
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