vSphere High Availability HA Part III : advanced HA

introduction
in previous article : we have seen how to configure and test HA  in this  article : we will advanced feature of HA and expert recommendation  just to mention
you are NOT obligated to practice all advanced HA features below
just try practice whatever you see important for your environment
HA considerations Recovery time Object RTO 5 minutes :  when host down thRead More…

vSphere High Availability HA Part II: configure HA

introduction
in this article we will see how to configure HA and verify it by power off ESXI153 to see  what will happen  so please back to part I of HA to understand the concept before configure HA effectively
HA network Diagram HA network Diagram to beter understand HA situation : please look to diagram above  we have clluster16 contain three ESXI host : ERead More…

vSphere High Availability HA Part I: introduction

introduction
In IT world :  administrators looking to achieve high availability with different ways,  including but NOT limited to  : HA applications, redundant NICs, server clusters, redundant power supplies, etc. redundant HDD with SAN storage VMware provide high availability at the virtualization layer with  a feature called vSphere High Availability 
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vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Part I I

introduction
DRS configuration is based on cluster level  in pioneers.lab L we have created cluster called cluster16 , which include three ESXI host : ESXI151 ,ESXI152,and ESXI153  please back to previous articles DRS introduction here before  configure DRS 
DRS Network Diagram
as we usual do in all  our configuration , it;s better to understand network diagram to ease Read More…

vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Part I

DRS introduction
in previous article : we have used vMotion to Manually migrate VM from ESXI host to another and from Datastore to another  its good feature : the bad thing it’s Manually  let us to suppose ESXI151 get overloaded in CPU or RAM > then some VM will stop working , unless we Manually migrate VM to another ESXI  we need some feature that  automatically  moRead More…