Category vSphere

vSphere

Distributed Resource Scheduler

DRS addresses where it is optimal for a VM to run. This is done to place the VM on the best ESXi host when the VM starts up based upon resources availability. The load balancing between Cluster nodes (ESXi hosts) is also based on moving VMs to another host that has less resource constraints.

VMInfrastructure
June 30, 2022

VMware, vSphere

vSphere FT

VMware HA and FT are often misunderstood. Here I will take a deep dive look at what FT provides, read this article for HA deep dive. What is vSphere FT vSphere Fault Tolerance (FT) is for most mission critical virtual…

VMInfrastructure
June 29, 2022

vSphere

Defining VM start order in case of VMware vSphere HA Event

Within vSphere 6.7 and later we can define the start order of VMs in a vSphere cluster in case of an HA event. This can be very useful for certain applications, like if the database server needs to be up…

VMInfrastructure
June 22, 2022