From the course: VMware vSphere 6.5 Essential Training Part 2

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Demo: Proactive HA

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Demo: Proactive HA

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- [Instructor] In this video, we'll take a look at the proactive HA feature that is now available in vSphere 6.5, and so here you can see, under the hosts and clusters view, and I'm looking at my HA cluster, and I'm gonna go ahead and click on Edit, and we'll take a look at the cluster settings here. And one of the settings that we have the ability to configure is to turn on Proactive HA, but you can see here there is a prerequisite to that. Now we have to have DRS enabled first, so I'm gonna start by simply just enabling DRS in manual mode. Okay, so now I've configured my cluster to enable DRS in manual mode, and I'm going to go ahead and go to the other screen here and now turn on Proactive high availability as well, and so here's what Proactive HA is going to do for me. High availability is normally service impacting, right? You can see here we have all of these conditions that we can configure. Like, for example, if a host fails, we want our virtual machines to restart, right? So…

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