vSphere HA Protection: Protected? or Not?
So I set the restart priority of one of my VMs to disabled. HA reconfigured and the VM still showed protected. Hmmmm, shouldn’t show protected anymore, right?
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vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)
Hyperconverged, Virtualization, VMware, Citrix, Datacenter Administration, and more…
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Masking LUN Being Used as HA Heartbeat Datastore
Last night I was working through a couple of the storage objectives for the VCAP5-DCA. One of the required skills of Objective 1.1 on the blueprint is to understand and apply LUN masking.
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Configuring Advance HA Settings with PowerCLI
In the TCC lab (and in many production environments) the default gateway filters ICMP packets. In order for HA to
Read MorevSphere 5 High Availability (HA) Configuration and Demonstration Video
Back in 2006 VMware HA was the technology that really sold me on virtualizing production workloads. I thought virtualization was a pretty neat technology that was well suited for testing and development but in a production environment it still seemed like you were putting all your eggs in one basket. A pre-sales VMware Engineer did a demo of HA by shutting down a running host to simulate a failure. Within a minute or so the VMs running on the host rebooted on another host and I have been hooked ever since.
Read MoreAwesome HA and DRS Audit Script Based on the HA/DRS Technical Deepdive
If you do not have a copy of VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive by @DuncanYB and @FrankDenneman
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