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The new FT (Fault Tolerance) feature in vSphere (video demo here) is very cool but it has some requirements and restrictions.  Sometimes when you try to enable it you’ll get an error back that isn’t always informative.  Basically, it’ll tell you that your host doesn’t meet a requirement but won’t say what that requirement is.  [...]

VMware recently came out with some really good whitepapers on a couple of more advanced vSphere topics.  The first one is on the Fault Tolerance feature and discusses performance and architecture.  It is here.  FT is a very WOW kind of feature (Plug for my video here) but to do it correctly you need to [...]

VMware has a pretty handy guide out there for those migrating to vSphere…but it’s also pretty useful even if you have already made the move.  It’s the vSphere Migration Prerequisites Checklist available here.  It’s useful because it gives you the requirements and limitations when upgrading to vSphere or implementing the cool new features like FT [...]

One of the coolest new features in VMware’s vSphere is Fault Tolerance, or FT.  We’ve had VMware HA for a while now and used it with very good results.  It’s a simple, easy way to provide failover clustering for a VM.  The downside is that it require the VM to be rebooted on another host [...]

One of the coolest new features in VMware’s vSphere is Fault Tolerance, or FT.  We’ve had VMware HA for a while now and used it with very good results.  It’s a simple, easy way to provide failover clustering for a VM.  The downside is that it require the VM to be rebooted on another host [...]