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You're reading from VMware vSphere 6.7 Data Center Design Cookbook Over 100 practical recipes to help you design a powerful virtual infrastructure based on vSphere 6.7

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789801514

Length 392 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Hersey Cartwright

Mike Brown

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. The Virtual Data Center

2. The Discovery Process FREE CHAPTER

3. The Design Factors

4. vSphere Management Design

5. vSphere Storage Design

6. vSphere Network Design

7. vSphere Compute Design

8. vSphere Physical Design

9. Virtual Machine Design

10. vSphere Security Design

11. Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

12. Design Documentation

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Reserving HA resources to support failover

When vSphere High Availability (HA) has been enabled on a vSphere cluster, the virtual machines running on the cluster are protected from a host hardware failure or virtual machine guest operating system crash.

In the event that a host suffers a hardware failure, or if ESXi crashes, the virtual machines are restarted on the surviving hosts in the cluster. Resources must be reserved in the cluster to guarantee that the necessary resources are available to restart the virtual machines.

How to do it...

Refer the following steps to reserve HA resources to support failover:

Edit the settings of the vSphere cluster to enable high availability
Enable the HA Admission Control policy
Select...

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Authors (2)

Mike Brown

Mike Brown is an army veteran and full-stack data center engineer with over 10 years in IT, with the cage nut scars to prove it. Mike has held many positions in IT, from helpdesk to systems administrator to engineer and consultant. His technical achievements include VCIX6-DCV and other VMware, Cisco, NetApp, and Microsoft certifications.

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Hersey Cartwright

Hersey Cartwright has worked in the technology industry since 1996 in many roles, from help desk support to IT management. He first started working with VMware technologies in 2006. He is currently a Solutions Engineer for VMware, where he designs, sells, and supports VMware software-defined datacenter products in enterprise environments within the healthcare industry. He has experience working with a wide variety of server, storage, and network platforms.

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