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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By : Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak
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Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7, - Second Edition

By: Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Paolo Valsecchi, Karel Novak

Overview of this book

vSphere 6.7 is the latest release of VMware’s industry-leading, virtual cloud platform. It allows organisations to move to hybrid cloud computing by enabling them to run, manage, connect and secure applications in a common operating environment. This up-to-date, 2nd edition provides complete coverage of vSphere 6.7. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples and self-assessment questions, you will begin with an overview of the products, solutions and features of the vSphere 6.7 suite. You’ll learn how to design and plan a virtual infrastructure and look at the workflow and installation of components. You'll gain insight into best practice configuration, management and security. By the end the book you'll be able to build your own VMware vSphere lab that can run even the most demanding of workloads.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Getting Started
8
Section 2: Managing Resources
13
Section 3: Advanced Topics
18
Section 4: Building Your Lab Environment

VMware vSphere HA

vSphere HA is the most commonly used technology in the vSphere Suite in terms of HA. vSphere HA is responsible for restarting VMs in cases of ESXi downtime. Highlighting the word restart is crucial. There is a hard restart of the VM on the other ESXi hypervisor within the same vSphere cluster.

Keep that in mind that your OS will boot from scratch after the HA event because, in such an event, it is not possible to synchronize the memory of the VM between hosts.

We will have a look at the different aspects of the vSphere HA in the next few sections, but now let's have a look at how to enable HA.

vSphere HA configuration

Configuring vSphere HA is a part of the cluster configuration in vSphere Web Client...