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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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How it works…

FT protects critical virtual machines against host and storage hardware failures. Prior to vSphere 6, FT only supported a single vCPU virtual machine. Support for vSMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) now provides more use cases for utilizing FT to protect virtual machines, including the following:

  • Protecting critical virtual machines with up to 4 vCPUs and 64 GB memory.
  • Reducing the complexity of other clustering services.
  • Protecting applications sensitive to the loss of TCP connections. FT failover maintains TCP connections between clients and the protected virtual machine.

The requirements for enabling FT protection for a virtual machine are as follows:

  • 10 GbE network connectivity between hosts when protecting multi-vCPU virtual ...
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