vSphere HA – vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128)

Using vSphere HA to Protect vCenter

June 19, 2017 herseyc 2 Comments vcenter, vSphere HA

The ability to provide HA protection of the vCenter Server is one of benefit of deploying vCenter as a virtual machine. vCenter is required to configure vSphere HA but once vSphere HA is configured vCenter is NOT required for vSphere HA to protect virtual machines in the cluster, including a virtualized vCenter Server.

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vSphere HA Host Isolation Response in a SimpliVity Design

May 31, 2016 herseyc 0 Comments Host Isolation, network, SimpliVity, vSphere HA

In this post I am going to look at a few typical SimpliVity deployment topologies and provide a recommendation for the Host Isolation Response setting, along with my reasoning behind the choice.