From the course: VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 2

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Demo: HA

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From the course: VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 2

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Demo: HA

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- In this video, I'll demonstrate how to set up a cluster of ESXi hosts for High Availability. So, here you can see we've already created a cluster, and it contains two ESXi hosts, and one running virtual machine. So I'm going to start by clicking on my cluster, and choosing configure. And under configure, I can go to the vSphere Availability option, and at the moment, High Availability is turned off, and proactive HA is turned off. Okay, so let's go ahead and click on Edit. And we can start to configure some of our High Availability settings here. So, we're gonna start by simply turning on vSphere High Availability, and you can see here there's some definitions, as far as what we want HA to do and when. So at the moment, it's configured to simply restart any VMs that are on a host if that host fails. That's what HA is going to do for us. It's not going to give us 100% up time, it's not a constant up time solution. But if Host does fail, those VMs will reboot on other ESXi hosts. We…

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