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Re: Fault Tolerance: automatic schedule / scripting

lamw — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:57:54 GMT

np. Let me know how testing goes.

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Re: Fault Tolerance: automatic schedule / scripting

blondie72 — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:57:01 GMT

Hello NG,

thanks for your support.

That's what I have been looking for.

Great script, thanks a lot.

Re: Fault Tolerance: automatic schedule / scripting

lamw — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:15:38 GMT

Take a look at this script: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2009/07/01/ftcli-pl-vmware-fault-tolerant-managment/

Re: Fault Tolerance: automatic schedule / scripting

Texiwill — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:50:59 GMT

Hello,

Moved to the Availability forum.

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Re: Fault Tolerance: automatic schedule / scripting

lamw — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:54:10 GMT

There are no default CLI utilities that support this right off the bat but you can take a look at using vSphere SDK for Perl or PowerCLI to accomplish this task.

Take a look at EnableSecondaryVM_Task() to enable FT and DisableSecondaryVM_Task() to disable FT. If you provide the credentials either through a config file or hardcode it within the script, then you can setup a Windows scheduled task to enable/disable FT, but you won't be able to schedule this within vCenter itself. You can also set the script run via a cronjob if you're using a UNIX/Linux or even vMA to execute the script.

If I get some free cycles this week, perhaps I'll write up a quick Perl script to show how this is done, but the methods are pretty straight forward and so long as you have the appropriate license for FT.

Re: Fault Tolerance: automatic schedule / scripting

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:27:48 GMT

Actually you cannot use "scheduled task" feature in vCenter Server.
I think that the only way is use PowerShell or other script language.

Andre

Fault Tolerance: automatic schedule / scripting

blondie72 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:20:58 GMT

Hi NG,

we would like to enable/disable FT on a VM by scheduled task or scripting on CLI (cronjob).

Is this possible at all, if so how?

Regards