When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?
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@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@bnrstnr said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
"I absolutely need vMotion to ensure my systems are up 100% of the time, I have a server infrastructure of 3 or more hosts."
I interpreted this as something somebody might say to justify using VMware, though it may be the incorrect decision... Maybe that's not what @DustinB3403 meant by it at all
It was an ad-hib attempt as to what a business evaluation of their needs are. Where literally the business cannot have downtime for even a few seconds.
VMware has this kind of capability, it just cost money to get it.
And 99.999% of businesses don't require these kinds of features.
But hyper-v can also do this...
Its more design than buying VMWare.Hyper-V can't do it without 3rd party software and solutions. The difference with ESXi is you'd have a single point of contact for everything (ESXi). If you wanted these kinds of features in Hyper-V you'd be looking at StarWinds and they'd be your point of contact, assuming you were using the software and not their appliance.
If it was the appliance, they'd be the only people to reach out too.
No. You could use hyper-v on its own and match the availability of VMWare site-for-site, with good design. For example, I could use haproxy with multiple IIS servers, VMs, all sitting on multiple hosts, connection to a SQL Server using failover cluster services for the database (no shared storage needed) with multiple lines in etc...
Different design - yes. Less availability than that one same site running VMWare - no.
And your dependency chain is way longer in this setup. The complexity goes through the roof as well. Which while it may be doable, doesn't mean its practical.
At that point you might as well just license ESXi and tell your systems to pool (across multiple sites). Project done.
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@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
VMWare is awesome.
You really cannot beat VMWare. It is the best thing out there.But the cost to obtain it is high because until you grow bigger than a few hosts using vSAN or internal storage, there is no point to paying for it.
The SMB almost never needs it.
That makes sense why it's typically not a recommended solution as a lot of us are SMB. I have very little exposure to VMware. Definitely not enough to understand it's strengths and weaknesses. Valuable information.
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@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@bnrstnr said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
"I absolutely need vMotion to ensure my systems are up 100% of the time, I have a server infrastructure of 3 or more hosts."
I interpreted this as something somebody might say to justify using VMware, though it may be the incorrect decision... Maybe that's not what @DustinB3403 meant by it at all
It was an ad-hib attempt as to what a business evaluation of their needs are. Where literally the business cannot have downtime for even a few seconds.
VMware has this kind of capability, it just cost money to get it.
And 99.999% of businesses don't require these kinds of features.
But hyper-v can also do this...
Its more design than buying VMWare.Hyper-V can't do it without 3rd party software and solutions. The difference with ESXi is you'd have a single point of contact for everything (ESXi). If you wanted these kinds of features in Hyper-V you'd be looking at StarWinds and they'd be your point of contact, assuming you were using the software and not their appliance.
If it was the appliance, they'd be the only people to reach out too.
No. You could use hyper-v on its own and match the availability of VMWare site-for-site, with good design. For example, I could use haproxy with multiple IIS servers, VMs, all sitting on multiple hosts, connection to a SQL Server using failover cluster services for the database (no shared storage needed) with multiple lines in etc...
Different design - yes. Less availability than that one same site running VMWare - no.
And your dependency chain is way longer in this setup. The complexity goes through the roof as well. Which while it may be doable, doesn't mean its practical.
At that point you might as well just license ESXi and tell your systems to pool (across multiple sites). Project done.
Why way longer? Two VMs for HAProxy in failover, one on nodeA, one on nodeB, 2 x IIS sitting behing them, one on nodeA, one on nodeB, sql server clustered, one nodeA, one nodeB... not difficult. Just as much reliability as having multiple servers with VMWare at 5k a pop. With VMWare, i'd still need two SQL servers for cluster. I'd still need two IIS, and i'd still likely want haproxy to make sure the traffic will failover between the IIS too...
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@Jimmy9008 I'm done with the topic. Please investigate ESXi and how it manages the individual hosts and enabled HA there in.
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@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
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@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
^ where did I argue? I was asking an actual question... from the quick search I did it was 5k or so per server, maybe not exact... didn't realise I had to provide a detailed quote for a reply on ML!
Chill and have a beer fella - its Friday.
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@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
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@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
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@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me in general, not just about this. I'm very serious
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@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
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@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time. Not defending him, just saying there are positives and negatives.
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@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time
So less than Standard Availability, eh?
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@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time
So less than Standard Availability, eh?
To be fair I actually don't know of a scenario where he was not accurate lol
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@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time
Yeah, probably. But i'm just curious as to why i'm wrong here. Not being rude about it from my side at all. It does look to be 5k. And i'd still need the same multiple IIS servers, and SQL servers... and yes, i'd want them sitting behing something like HA proxy. At that point I have application level high availability, so even less need for vMotion.
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@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time
Yeah, probably. But i'm just curious as to why i'm wrong here. Not being rude about it from my side at all. It does look to be 5k. And i'd still need the same multiple IIS servers, and SQL servers... and yes, i'd want them sitting behing something like HA proxy. At that point I have application level high availability, so even less need for vMotion.
In a very general way, complexity = bad unless you have no other option. In this situation you would have other options. I had no idea VMware was a good as it is, but I'm also in the SMB space.
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@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time
Yeah, probably. But i'm just curious as to why i'm wrong here. Not being rude about it from my side at all. It does look to be 5k. And i'd still need the same multiple IIS servers, and SQL servers... and yes, i'd want them sitting behing something like HA proxy. At that point I have application level high availability, so even less need for vMotion.
But at that point you'd have at least 12 individual system before you're even managing the Hypervisor its self.
That's a stupidly long dependency chain with a lot of things that can go wrong. Not even mentioning the time to setup and test the system. And then to find someone who would want to support it from the Bus effect.
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@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time
Yeah, probably. But i'm just curious as to why i'm wrong here. Not being rude about it from my side at all. It does look to be 5k. And i'd still need the same multiple IIS servers, and SQL servers... and yes, i'd want them sitting behing something like HA proxy. At that point I have application level high availability, so even less need for vMotion.
In a very general way, complexity = bad unless you have no other option. In this situation you would have other options. I had no idea VMware was a good as it is, but I'm also in the SMB space.
Agree 100%. But what I described is not complex. If VMWare is needed for high availability, that means to me things need to stay up. So at a minimum, you would need two VMs for IIS, you would need the SQL cluster etc... If I want to run windows updates on IIS box and I have 1 or them only... downtime. So I need two. If I have two, I can put them behind haproxy, so when I switch one off for updates, the other will take the load... application level HA without VMWare and the price tag.
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@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time
Yeah, probably. But i'm just curious as to why i'm wrong here. Not being rude about it from my side at all. It does look to be 5k. And i'd still need the same multiple IIS servers, and SQL servers... and yes, i'd want them sitting behing something like HA proxy. At that point I have application level high availability, so even less need for vMotion.
But at that point you'd have at least 12 individual system before you're even managing the Hypervisor its self.
That's a stupidly long dependency chain with a lot of things that can go wrong. Not even mentioning the time to setup and test the system. And then to find someone who would want to support it from the Bus effect.
Yeah, agree i'd have 12 systems. Of course I have 12. Why on earth wouldn't I. If I had only 1 x SQL Server, or 1 x IIS, whenever I do updates... that's the app down. Surely I'm not the only person to see that? I need application HA in addition to the hardware level... and in this case, once I have that... vMotion does nothing for me.
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@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time
Yeah, probably. But i'm just curious as to why i'm wrong here. Not being rude about it from my side at all. It does look to be 5k. And i'd still need the same multiple IIS servers, and SQL servers... and yes, i'd want them sitting behing something like HA proxy. At that point I have application level high availability, so even less need for vMotion.
But at that point you'd have at least 12 individual system before you're even managing the Hypervisor its self.
That's a stupidly long dependency chain with a lot of things that can go wrong. Not even mentioning the time to setup and test the system. And then to find someone who would want to support it from the Bus effect.
Yeah, agree i'd have 12 systems. Of course I have 12. Why on earth wouldn't I. If I had only 1 x SQL Server, or 1 x IIS, whenever I do updates... that's the app down. Surely I'm not the only person to see that? I need application HA in addition to the hardware level... and in this case, once I have that... vMotion does nothing for me.
Every system has down time, even wall street. There is no such thing as 100% up time. You're in a dream world if you think this is a viable, cost effective solution.
And unless you are Wall Street, the entire setup here would only make sense for the 1% of the top 1% of organizations.
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@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@DustinB3403 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@wirestyle22 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@JaredBusch said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
@Jimmy9008 said in When to use VMWare over free hypervisors?:
with VMWare at 5k a pop
FFS, you have no idea WTF you are talking about. Stop arguing and go learn. Then you can discuss instead of argue.
This is the product right?
£4712 with VAT... not far out of the 5k I said no?
So where are you saying I'm wrong here?
Would like like me to send you a quote for an hour of consulting time to help you understand?
How much is an hour of consulting time? I fI can afford it I'd probably hire you to teach me. I'm very serious
Hahah lol
No, i'd like you to not be rude actually. From the page I am looking at, that product is the minimum you need for vMotion - which is what we were just talking about where I referred to the price... so... yeah...
I'm not the one being rude here.
He's definitely rude (and he knows it) but he's also correct 99% of the time
Yeah, probably. But i'm just curious as to why i'm wrong here. Not being rude about it from my side at all. It does look to be 5k. And i'd still need the same multiple IIS servers, and SQL servers... and yes, i'd want them sitting behing something like HA proxy. At that point I have application level high availability, so even less need for vMotion.
But at that point you'd have at least 12 individual system before you're even managing the Hypervisor its self.
That's a stupidly long dependency chain with a lot of things that can go wrong. Not even mentioning the time to setup and test the system. And then to find someone who would want to support it from the Bus effect.
Yeah, agree i'd have 12 systems. Of course I have 12. Why on earth wouldn't I. If I had only 1 x SQL Server, or 1 x IIS, whenever I do updates... that's the app down. Surely I'm not the only person to see that? I need application HA in addition to the hardware level... and in this case, once I have that... vMotion does nothing for me.
Every system has down time, even wall street. There is no such thing as 100% up time. You're in a dream world if you think this is a viable, cost effective solution.
And unless you are Wall Street, the entire setup here would only make sense for the 1% of the top 1% of organizations.
This is correct. HA is specifically addressing unplanned downtime as I understand it. Would definitely love to see more experienced people than me discuss it though.
