Real Time Replication and Failover for VMware
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What options do I have? Just a simply 2 host setup. No SAN.
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Is there a reason you're mentioning VMWare? Are you already licensed for this? Do you have OS licensing to perform this failover more then once every 30 days(?).
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Xen (Citrix XenServer) and HyperV offer this for free 100% out of the box.
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@DustinB3403 VMware is already installed. They have data center licencing on both hosts. VMware is Essential Plus.
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So you'll need vMotion to do this.
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It seems VMware vSphere Essentials has vSphere vMotion, but can I use it without shared storage or a VSA?
Ideally they want to use all local storage.
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If and only if you have the Essentials Plus are you licensed for this. I'm not certain if there is a difference with regards to "having shared storage and not"
I would assume that it doesn't matter
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@anonymous said:
It seems VMware vSphere Essentials has vSphere vMotion, but can I use it without shared storage or a VSA?
good question - @scottalanmiller ?
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@DustinB3403 But what do you I use keep the VM replicated on both hosts?
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@anonymous said:
@DustinB3403 But what do you I use keep the VM replicated on both hosts?
Without VSA or shared storage, you can't.
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a Virtual SAN.
To keep them replicate (and running I'm assuming you mean) you'd also need additional windows licensing.
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@DustinB3403 Doesn't my data-center licence on each host cover this?
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@Dashrender What about if I had Hyper V or Xen?
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@anonymous I know hyper-v will allow you to replicate every minute. (I do that)
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@brianlittlejohn said:
@anonymous I know hyper-v will allow you to replicate every minute. (I do that)
@brianlittlejohn just paged everyone on mangolassi.it to read this topic... HAHA
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@brianlittlejohn And when you lose a host, no problem?
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@DustinB3403 How did I do that?
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@brianlittlejohn No, I am asking if you have ever lost a host, and had the systems stay up?
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@anonymous You will have downtime until the vm boots on the other host. Not to mention the loss of a minute or two of data.
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