Hello,
Can someone point me in the right direction to be able to create the following infrastructure/configuration:
- I need to have a watchdog kind of system in case a VM, or its host, goes down.
- I would like to have a watchdog for the host itself and another one for the VM
- If only the VM crashes, another one in that same hypervisor could take its place. If the hypervisor goes down, then the other host/hypervisor would take its place as "primary host".
My doubts are:
- Does VMware has such a solution?
- Is it a "complete" solution where everything can be done using just the GUI of VMware tools?
- Is there some kind of service/api that can be used to fetch such information and include it in my own software?
- In terms of licensing, are these functionalities available in the free license or which one do I need to acquire?
Thanks for your help.
Sounds like you need to look at vSphere HA, covered in this guide: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-63F459B7-8884-4818-8...
Thanks. That is what I was looking for.
Are you able to confirm if my interpretation of the licensing is correct [1].
I would need a:
- vSphere server license
- and each host has to be licensed for vSphere HA (standard license HA cluster)
Is that it?
Thanks
Yes, and the VMs need to be stored on shared storage.
