Best Solution?

[schotje29686]

Hello,

Don't know if this is the right place to ask this, but i'm unable to find a suitable answer elsewhere.

One of our customers has 2 vsphere hosts with only local storage. They want a HA and failover solution so if 1 host failes all the VM's (6) can automatic run on the other host.

Each host has enough resources and storage to run the VM's. But they prefer that both hosts are load balancing the VM's, but transfer to the other host in case of host failure.

But I can't figure out which license i need and if i should advise RSM or just HA.

[depping]

you will need shared storage in order to do that in a fully automated fashion, not other option.

[a_p_]

Some of the available option may be:

A VMware vSAN 2 node Cluster, which however has hard requirements for the hardware, and requires a witness node on separate hardware.

Another alternative could be StorMagic's SvSAN, which basically maps the local storage to SvSAN nodes (VMs), and presents that storage as iSCSI storage to the hosts. It lets you create mirrored volumes (using 2 direct connected 10gbps network ports for iSCSI, and replication), so that in case one host fails, all data is available on the other host. This solution also requires a witness, but it can be implemented as a service on either a Windows, or Linux systems that - of course - does not use the shared storage. The witness can even run on a Raspberry Pi. The minimum vSphere Edition that I recommend for this solution is Essentials Plus, so that you HA, and vMotion are available.

André