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Table Of Contents
Contents
About vSphere Availability 5
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Business Continuity and Minimizing Downtime 6
Reducing Planned Downtime 6
Preventing Unplanned Downtime 7
vSphere HA Provides Rapid Recovery from Outages 7
vSphere Fault Tolerance Provides Continuous Availability 8
Protecting the vCenter Server Appliance with vCenter High Availability 9
Protecting vCenter Server with VMware Service Lifecycle Manager 10
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Creating and Using vSphere HA Clusters 11
How vSphere HA Works 11
vSphere HA Admission Control 20
vSphere HA Interoperability 26
Creating a vSphere HA Cluster 30
Configuring vSphere Availability Settings 34
Best Practices for VMware vSphere
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High Availability Clusters 44
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Providing Fault Tolerance for Virtual Machines 48
How Fault Tolerance Works 48
Fault Tolerance Use Cases 49
Fault Tolerance Requirements, Limits, and Licensing 50
Fault Tolerance Interoperability 51
Preparing Your Cluster and Hosts for Fault Tolerance 52
Using Fault Tolerance 55
Best Practices for Fault Tolerance 60
Legacy Fault Tolerance 62
Troubleshooting Fault Tolerant Virtual Machines 62
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vCenter High Availability 69
Plan the vCenter HA Deployment 70
Configure the Network 75
Configure vCenter HA With the Basic Option 77
Configure vCenter HA With the Advanced Option 78
Manage the vCenter HA Configuration 81
Troubleshoot Your vCenter HA Environment 88
Patching a vCenter High Availability Environment 94
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