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You're reading from Mastering VMware vSphere 6.5 Leverage the power of vSphere for effective virtualization, administration, management and monitoring of data centers

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286016

Length 598 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

vSphere

Concepts

Networking

Authors (3):

Andrea Mauro

Paolo Valsecchi

Karel Novak

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Evolution of VMware vSphere Suite FREE CHAPTER

2. Design and Plan a Virtualization Infrastructure

3. Analysis and Assessment of an Existing Environment

4. Deployment Workflow and Component Installation

5. Configuring and Managing vSphere 6.5

6. Advanced Network Management

7. Advanced Storage Management

8. Advanced VM and Resource Management

9. Monitoring, Optimizing, and Troubleshooting

10. Securing and Protecting Your Environment

11. Lifecycle Management, Patching, and Upgrading

12. Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

13. Advanced Availability in vSphere 6.5

14. Data and Workloads Protection

VMware vSphere HA

First, we will be speaking about vSphere HA. vSphere HA protects primary ESXi host failures. Of course, you can use vSphere HA protection for datastore failures, application failures, and network isolation. vSphere HA configuration is a part of the cluster object, so first, you must create a cluster object in your data center object.

Configuration vSphere HA is a part of the cluster configuration in vSphere Web Client; click on the Edit... button in the vSphere Availability area as shown in the following screenshot:

vSphere HA – Configuration – Edit

The configuration in the basic state is very easy; click on Turn ON vSphere HA checkbox and then OK:

Turn ON vSphere HA

Under the Recent Tasks area, you can see Configuring vSphere HA on each host, so wait for the success on all hosts of the cluster:

Recent Tasks – Configuration HA

When you click Turn ON on every ESXi host in the cluster, a special agent called Fault Domain Manager (FDM) is installed. In case of a failure, probably...