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vCenter HA: vCenter planning

Hello,

Please provide your suggestions on the below queries (Apologies for the long list):

  1. If there are 4 Hosts, how many vCenter License required, if:
    1. All Four Hosts in one cluster?
    2. 2 hosts in cluster1 and another 2 hosts in cluster 2 for HA purpose?
  2. Is separate License of HA is required, If vCenter License is being used?
  3. Which and how many Licenses are required for HA if vCenter is not being used?
  4. Can the vCenter HA be achieved using Two Hosts (Active, Passive, without witness)? If yes what is the risk? Please provide the feasibility as per the below Compute 1 and Compute 2 features.
  5. Is external storage (SAN) is mandatory to achieve the HA?
  6. in vCenter HA: Planning to have Two VMs (VM1 and VM2) on Same host (host1). If One VM (VM1) goes down and it will started on another host (host2). I need another VM2 also to be restarted on Host 2 and shutdown on host1. e.g. both VMs should be running on same host. How to achieve this?

 

Thanks!!

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