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6 Replies Last post: Jul 30, 2009 6:20 AM by Vliegenmepper

on-demand FT, can this be automated? posted: Jul 30, 2009 2:01 AM

Vliegenmepper

1,511 posts since
May 10, 2006

Hi,

VMware mentions that since FT is so easy to enable this can easily be used for on-demand FT.
Question that I have, is there a way to automate the enabling of FT? (it isn't an option in the default VC scheduler)

Maybe this needs to be done via PowerCli?

Thanks!
Kenneth van Ditmarsch

Re: on-demand FT, can this be automated?

1. Jul 30, 2009 2:10 AM

in response to: Vliegenmepper

AndreTheGiant

5,897 posts since
Aug 28, 2008

Actually the only way is use scripting.
There was similar threads (a month ago), maybe there are also some examples

Andre

Re: on-demand FT, can this be automated?

2. Jul 30, 2009 2:18 AM

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krishnaprasad

144 posts since
Oct 30, 2006

you can right click the VM ( from VC where your Host and VMs are connected ) and ther you can see the FT enable option.

There are some pre requisites before enabling FT.

Re: on-demand FT, can this be automated?

3. Jul 30, 2009 2:30 AM

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Vliegenmepper

1,511 posts since
May 10, 2006

Yeah, but that isn't the question actually

Re: on-demand FT, can this be automated?

4. Jul 30, 2009 2:34 AM

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krishnaprasad

144 posts since
Oct 30, 2006

I believe you can enable the FT logging on host using cmd line ( automation purpose ).... not sure whether enabling FT on VMs can be automated or not

Re: on-demand FT, can this be automated?

5. Jul 30, 2009 6:17 AM

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lamw

2,803 posts since
Nov 27, 2007

Yep, take a look at this script that I wrote: ftCLI.pl - VMware Fault Tolerant Managment

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Re: on-demand FT, can this be automated?

6. Jul 30, 2009 6:20 AM

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Vliegenmepper

1,511 posts since
May 10, 2006

Cool stuff, Thanks William!

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