Chapter 2. Increasing Environment Availability
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Configuring the HA feature
- Prioritizing VMs for recovery
- Tuning up vSphere HA
- Ensuring 100 percent uptime for critical VMs
- Protecting host redundancy for equally sized hosts
- Protecting host redundancy for significantly different hosts
- Protecting host redundancy with failover hosts
- Backing up/restoring
.vmdk
files - Restoring VM backup without vCenter
- Configuring the backup retention policy
- Protecting the vCenter VM