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vSphere Availability
Contents
About vSphere Availability
Updated Information
Business Continuity and Minimizing Downtime
Reducing Planned Downtime
Preventing Unplanned Downtime
vSphere HA Provides Rapid Recovery from Outages
vSphere Fault Tolerance Provides Continuous Availability
Creating and Using vSphere HA Clusters
How vSphere HA Works
Master and Slave Hosts
Host Failure Types and Detection
Determining Responses to Host Issues
VM and Application Monitoring
VM Component Protection
Network Partitions
Datastore Heartbeating
vSphere HA Security
vSphere HA Admission Control
Host Failures Cluster Tolerates Admission Control Policy
Percentage of Cluster Resources Reserved Admission Control Policy
Specify Failover Hosts Admission Control Policy
Choosing an Admission Control Policy
vSphere HA Interoperability
Using vSphere HA with Virtual SAN
Using vSphere HA and DRS Together
vSphere HA and DRS Affinity Rules
Other vSphere HA Interoperability Issues
Creating and Configuring a vSphere HA Cluster
vSphere HA Checklist
Create a vSphere HA Cluster
Configuring vSphere HA Cluster Settings
Configure Virtual Machine Response
Configure Admission Control
Configure Datastore for Heartbeating
Set Advanced Options
vSphere HA Advanced Options
Customize an Individual Virtual Machine
Best Practices for vSphere HA Clusters
Best Practices for Networking
Best Practices for Interoperability
Best Practices for Admission Control
Best Practices for Cluster Monitoring
Providing Fault Tolerance for Virtual Machines
How Fault Tolerance Works
Fault Tolerance Use Cases
Fault Tolerance Requirements, Limits, and Licensing
Fault Tolerance Interoperability
vSphere Features not Supported with Fault Tolerance
Features and Devices Incompatible with Fault Tolerance
Using Fault Tolerance with DRS
Preparing Your Cluster and Hosts for Fault Tolerance
Fault Tolerance Checklist
Configure Networking for Host Machines
Create Cluster and Check Compliance
Using Fault Tolerance
Validation Checks for Turning On Fault Tolerance
Turn On Fault Tolerance
Turn Off Fault Tolerance
Suspend Fault Tolerance
Migrate Secondary
Test Failover
Test Restart Secondary
Upgrade Hosts Used for Fault Tolerance
Best Practices for Fault Tolerance
Legacy Fault Tolerance
Enable Legacy Fault Tolerance
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