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MauroBonder
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FT using Virtual machine in Local/Internal Disk

Hi,

I have a follow question.

The vSphere supports that i use FT between two virtual machines allocated in internal disk ?

I read the guide but dont have this limitation, only talk that is supported FC, NFS and iSCSI.

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MattG
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http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/fault_tolerance_recommendations_considerations_on_vmw_vsphere4.pdf

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• Shared storage required – Fibre channel, iSCSI, or NAS.

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KamilAzmer
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FT only can be used in shared storage and the environment have more than 2 hosts. FT cannot be used if the datastore is local storage.

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you know if have any documment talking it ?

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The vSphere Availability guide should give you the stated requirements. While a 2 hosts cluster isnt optimal for FT, it will work. If you lose a host, then FT will not be able to spin up another secondary VM.

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KamilAzmer
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You may refer to this url

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/vmroyale/2009/05/18/vmware-fault-tolerance-requirements-and-limi...

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MauroBonder
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I've read this article and it says nothing that can not be internal disk.

Do you have any documentation stating that they can not!?

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http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/fault_tolerance_recommendations_considerations_on_vmw_vsphere4.pdf

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• Shared storage required – Fibre channel, iSCSI, or NAS.

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Nice!!!

Thanks !!!

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