vDswitch and FT setup documentation

[jrene]

Hello,

I cannot find any documentation that explain how to configure FT with vDswitch in DETAILS.

All documents refer to vSwiches setup for FT, not what I am looking for.

I am using 2x 10GBs NICs on my hosts and I'd like to implement FT.

My vDswitch has been running well for few months. Now I would like to implement FT on my critical VMs.

Help would be welcomed!

Thank you, JR

[NetRock · Accepted solution]

Hey JR,

Check these two papaers;

http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/vsphere-distributed-switch-best-practices.pdf

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

Hope it helps.

NetRcok

[rickardnobel]

jrene wrote:

I am using 2 x 10GBs NICs on my hosts and I'd like to implement FT.

Is your Distributed vSwitch of version 4.1 or 5.0? Then you could enable NIOC and configure "shares" for the FT network to not get other traffic to block the FT logging.

[jrene]

hello and thank you for your email.

Currently ESXi 4.1 but will upgrade to 5 next month...JR

[jrene]

Thank you for sharing the documents. JR