VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical deepdive (Volume 1) by Duncan Epping

By Duncan Epping

VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical Deepdive zooms in on key parts of each VMware dependent infrastructure and is under no circumstances a "how to" advisor. It covers the elemental steps had to create a VMware HA and DRS cluster, yet much more vital explains the innovations and mechanisms in the back of HA and DRS with the intention to assist you to make good informed judgements. This publication will take you in to the trenches of HA and DRS and offers you the instruments to appreciate and enforce e.g. HA admission keep an eye on guidelines, DRS source swimming pools and source allocation settings. On best of that every part comprises uncomplicated layout rules that may be used for designing, imposing or enhancing VMware infrastructures. This ebook is additionally the final word advisor to be ready for any HA or DRS similar questions and case reports that would be provided in the course of VMware VCDX, VCP and or VCAP exams.

Coverage includes:

  • HA node types
  • HA isolation detection and response
  • HA admission control
  • VM Monitoring
  • HA and DRS integration
  • DRS imbalance algorithm
  • source Pools
  • effect of reservations and limits
  • CPU source Scheduling
  • reminiscence Scheduler
  • DPM

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This could be any of the above-described options, power down, shut down or leave powered on. If only one heartbeat is received or just a single isolation address can be pinged the isolation response will not be triggered, which is exactly what you want. Selecting an Additional Isolation Address A question asked by many people is which address should be specified for this additional isolation verification. We generally recommend an isolation address closest to the hosts to avoid too many network hops.

Pros: What you see is what you get. No fragmented resources. Cons: What you see is what you get. Maximum of one failover host. ) Dedicated failover host not utilized during normal operations. Recommendations We have been asked many times for our recommendation on Admission Control and it is difficult to answer as each policy has its pros and cons. However, we generally recommend a Percentage based Admission Control Policy. It is the most flexible policy as it uses the actual reservation per virtual machine instead of taking a “worse case” scenario approach like the number of host failures does.

Specify a Failover Host With the Specify a Failover Host Admission Control Policy, when a host fails, HA will attempt to restart all virtual machines on the designated failover host. The designated failover host is essentially a “hot standby”. In other words DRS will not migrate VMs to this host when resources are scarce or the cluster is imbalanced. Pros: What you see is what you get. No fragmented resources. Cons: What you see is what you get. Maximum of one failover host. ) Dedicated failover host not utilized during normal operations.

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