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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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FT configuration

The configuration of the FT is a simple process. It is performed on the individual VM level.

As FT traffic might generate a significant amount of bandwidth, it is highly recommended you use a dedicated physical network interface card for such reasons. If you are not able to dedicate a NIC for FT traffic, you should consider using other Quality of Service (QoS) features such as Network IO Control to guarantee specific bandwidth to different traffic types on the shared physical media.

In both cases, prior to configuring the FT on the VM, you need to configure a VMkernel port that will be used for FT traffic and enable the Fault Tolerance logging service on the adapter. Again, it is highly recommended you use a dedicated VMkernel ...

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