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wb2
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FT won't enable for vm

I just tried turning on Fault Tolerance on one of my virtual machines.  It's a single processor, 6gb ram.  We're running ESXi 4.1 with 2 hosts.

I get this error:

Insufficient resources to satisfy configured failover level for HA.

Anyone know why?  It's the first machine I've attempted to set FT on.

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Troy_Clavell
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you'll have to do this by logging into the ESX(i) host that the guest is running on.  Also, if running vCenter as a VM the requirements are to run it with 2vCPU's.

Plus, I woldn't worry to much about FT on your vCenter VM, just take care of your DB.

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jjkrueger
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Technically, you can't FT protect a vCenter server as, per software requirements, vCenter requires 2 CPUs. FT will only protect uniprocessor VMs.

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