VMware Cloud Community
rcalcantara
Contributor
Contributor
‎06-30-2009 10:15 PM

High Availability

I have 2 Vmware ESX Host and I want to test High Availability feature, if one of my ESX Host accidentally powered off will HA still works or the VM's running on the host will automatically transfer to the other host?

Anyone who had tested it and give me feedback as to what happened? Thank you

0 Kudos
5 Replies
AndreTheGiant
Immortal
Immortal
‎06-30-2009 10:21 PM

If you have VMware HA and you poweroff a ESX, then VMware HA will restart the VMs (that were active on the first node) on the other ESXs.

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
rcalcantara
Contributor
Contributor
‎06-30-2009 10:25 PM

Thank you Andre

0 Kudos
rcalcantara
Contributor
Contributor
‎06-30-2009 10:26 PM

Hi Andre,

Thank you very much.

0 Kudos
AndreTheGiant
Immortal
Immortal
‎06-30-2009 10:45 PM

You're welcome.

Using HA be sure to understand also

  • admission control (http://www.vmwarewolf.com/vmware-ha-admission-control/),

  • isolation response (http://blog.scottlowe.org/2007/10/05/troubleshooting-vmware-ha-isolation-response/) and

  • advanced settings (http://vmwaretips.com/wp/2008/10/20/advanced-settings-for-vmware-ha/)

See also: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_ha_wp.pdf

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
0 Kudos
depping
Leadership
Leadership
‎06-30-2009 11:38 PM

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/ha-advanced-options/

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/vmware-high-availability-deepdiv/

Duncan

VMware Communities User Moderator | VCP | VCDX

-

Blogging:

Twitter:

If you find this information useful, please award points for "correct" or "helpful".

0 Kudos