Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between
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Category Archives: FT
Using VMware Fault Tolerance to Protect a Virtualized vCenter machine
Posted by on November 30, 2009
In my lab I have a virtualized vCenter installation, it works well and I’ve had no problems with this configuration in the last year. I wanted to try to build a 2 node demo cluster for my VMUG session and needed vCenter to be protected by FT – so an individual host failure would [...]
VMware FT, 2 Nodes and stuck on 2% entering maintenance mode
Posted by on October 14, 2009
I have a 2 node vSphere cluster running on a pair of ML115g5 servers (cheap ESX nodes, FT compatible) and I was trying to put one into maintenance mode so I could update its host profile, however it got stuck at 2% entering maintenance mode, it appeared to vMotion off the VMs it was [...]
vSphere – How to Enable FT for a Nested VM
Posted by on June 7, 2009
As in my previous post; I am working on a lab with virtual ESX4 servers in it – I can vMotion VMs from a physical vSphere cluster into the virtual vSphere cluster perfectly and performance is very good (just 1 dropped ping in my testing) One of the physical hosts belongs to www.techhead.co.uk which [...]
