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Saturday, September 10, 2011

vSphere 5.0 High Availability vs Previous Versions of VMware


This post is a follow up to a previous post "Virtualization-Vmware-Clusters and Blade Servers" where we discussed limitations with HA in previous versions of VMware.

In vSphere 5.0 the concept of 5 primary/secondary hosts has been eliminated and the concept of master/slave exists. A single host is the master and all other hosts are slaves, if the master fails then an election process is kicked off and a new master is elected.

This eliminates issues in previous versions of VMware where the primary/secondary concept existed and we needed to consider

  • Number of hosts in a cluster
  • Managing the role of the host
  • Number of consecutive host failures
  • Placement of hosts across blade chassis and stretched clusters
  • Partition scenarios likely to occur in stretched cluster environment

By the way Dave thanks for the link

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