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vCenter Server HA – changes in vSphere 6.5

vCenter Server HA – changes in vSphere 6.5

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In vSphere 6.5 vCenter has a new native high availability solution that is available exclusively for the vCenter Server Appliance. This solution consists of Active, Passive, and Witness nodes which are cloned from the existing vCenter Server. The vCenter HA cluster can be enabled, disabled, or destroyed at any time. There is also a maintenance mode so planned maintenance does not cause an unwanted failover. vCenter HA supports both an external PSC as well as an embedded PSC. Note, however,…

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vSphere 6.5 – vSphere HA Orchestrated Restart

vSphere 6.5 – vSphere HA Orchestrated Restart

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VMware announced a new feature in vSphere 6.5 called HA Orchestrated Restart. But wait a minute – it was already available in previous version where you were able to set the restart priority for specific VMs or group of VMs. So what’s going on with this “new feature” ? As always, the devil is in the details 🙂 Let’s start from the old behavior. Using VM overrides in previous version of vSphere, we could set one of three available priorities…

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What’s New in vSphere 6.5 – ProactiveHA

What’s New in vSphere 6.5 – ProactiveHA

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Proactive HA is a new feature Available in vSphere 6.5 released recently. It’s a kind of feature which will even better help you to protect you environment in case of hardware failure. Currently all of the hardware components are redundant including power supplies, fans, network cards etc. However the most possible cause of whole server failure occurs while one of these theoretically redundant components fails. To better imagine that let’s think about power supply fail. There is still the second one…

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