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2 Replies Last post: Oct 8, 2009 6:48 AM by Bramha

API to turn on Fault Tolerance posted: Oct 7, 2009 5:42 AM

Bramha

11 posts since
Oct 21, 2008

For my BR application I need to Turn Off FT to be able to take a VM Snapshot . I found API TurnOffFaultToleranceForVM_Task to turn off FT for a VM. But I dont see any API to turn it on back again. Why isn't there an API to turn FT on ?. Is there some way I can do this ?

Thanks,

Parag

Tags: ft, ha, fault_tolerance, availability, high_availability, webservices, api

Re: API to turn on Fault Tolerance

1. Oct 7, 2009 6:47 AM

in response to: Bramha

lamw

2,803 posts since
Nov 27, 2007

For fault tolerance management, you'll be using the following methods:

CreateSecondaryVM_Task() (configure FT for a VM)
EnableSecondaryVM_Task() (turn ON FT for a VM)
DisableSecondaryVM_Task() (disable FT for a VM)
TurnOffFaultToleranceForVM_Task() (turn OFF FT for a VM)

You can take a look at this script I wrote to manage FT: ftCLI.pl - VMware Fault Tolerant Managment

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