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Gangadhargaur
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HA and DRS cluster between Dell PE 2950 and Dell PE 2900

Hi,

I have 2 Dell Power Edge 2950 III , 2 Dell Power Edge II and 1 Dell Power Edge 2900 Server

2667 Mhz CPU is installed in all the servers.. (dont know the exect cpu model, This is the only hardware information I have)

I will use VMware ESX 4.1 and want create a HA and DRS cluster of all the 5 servers.

My Question is Can I create a HA and DRS cluster using all the 5 servers.

Thanks in advance.

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athlon_crazy
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High chance there will be no problem for the HA.

If you able to do vMotion virtual machines between these hosts, DRS should be okay too.

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AndreTheGiant
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If CPU models are not the same you can enable EVC cluster feature to normalize them.

Andre

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PduPreez
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Hi

You probably would need to use EVC mode to achieve this

But you will have to check the compatibillity before you promise anything. Checkout more about from this link

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100576...

More on the compatibillity work through this KB - http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=100576...

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Texiwill
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Hello,

Moved to the vSphere Availability forum.

You can always setup HA on two different servers.... However, it works best when they support EVC.... DRS will require EVC capability.


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