Providing fault tolerance protection
vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) provides protection from a host or storage hardware failure for critical virtual machines by enabling a secondary running copy of the virtual machine running on a separate host and stored on a different datastore. The secondary virtual machine is identical to the primary protected virtual machine, and the failover is instant and transparent:
vSphere FT Fast Check-Pointing keeps the primary and secondary virtual machines in sync in order to allow the secondary virtual machine to instantly take over should the primary virtual machine be impacted by a host or storage failure.
How to do it…
Identify use cases for vSphere FT.
Identify requirements to enable vSphere FT.
Enable vSphere FT for a virtual machine.
Test vSphere FT for an enabled virtual machine.
How it works…
FT protects critical virtual machines against host and storage hardware failures. Prior to vSphere 6, FT supported only a single vCPU virtual machine. Support for Symmetric...
