This document describes the features and characteristics of vSphere Availability Update 1 ESXi 5.0 vCenter Server 5.0, including business continuity and minimizing downtime, reducing planned downtime, vSphere HA providing rapid recovery, and vSphere Fault Tolerance providing continuous availability.
vSphere Availability describes solutions that provide business continuity, including how to establish vSphere High Availability (HA) and vSphere Fault Tolerance. The document is intended for experienced Windows or Linux system administrators who are familiar with virtual machine technology and datacenter operations.
The guide covers reducing planned downtime through features like vMotion and Storage vMotion, preventing unplanned downtime via shared storage and network teaming, and providing rapid recovery from outages using vSphere HA. It also details how to create and customize vSphere HA clusters and provides instructions for implementing Fault Tolerance for virtual machines.
This information is for anyone who wants to provide business continuity through the vSphere HA and Fault Tolerance solutions, specifically experienced Windows or Linux system administrators.
It protects against a server failure by restarting the virtual machines on other hosts within the cluster.
vSphere allows workloads to be dynamically moved to different physical servers without service interruption, enabling maintenance at any time.