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jclapin
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Watchdog for host and guests

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.

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scott28tt
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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...

 


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jclapin
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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

[1] https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-8FD87389-8CC9-4298-8...

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depping
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Yes, and the VMs need to be stored on shared storage.

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