Any additional VMware HA configurations needed for deploying a VM load balancer ?

[vwmagic]

A vendor provided us OVF file and will build a 2-node HA load balancer for an application. Since I am not so familiar with OVF / VMware, here is my question.

In this kind of situation, after I deployed two VM's by loading/installing the OVF file, usually, there will be any additional configurations required to build up HA, or usually once I deployed them into vSphere, HA should be already set up for me?

The document provided by the vendor, did not' say anything about I am asking for here.

Thank you!

[sjesse]

Usually a vendor will provide the vmware specifics, and alot of that is included in the ova setup, so there shouldn't be anything extra. For no node setups like 2 nodes, the only thing that you need is an drs rule if you have a cluster that has drs licensed to make sure they don't end up on the same node.

Create a VM-VM Affinity Rule

[pragg12]

Hi,

So if you are deploying the appliance in an already configured DRS and HA enabled cluster, no further configuration would be required from VMware level.