Chapter 11. High Availability Considerations

Making Your View Environment Resilient

You need to consider making a number of points within a VMware View architecture redundant or highly available. High availability (HA) is relevant within a single site or across multiple sites if you are deploying active VMware View environments across multiple datacenters. You can use a number of technologies to ensure HA in addition to native features of vSphere 5. In this chapter, we look at each point in the architecture that you need to consider making highly available, what native features can be used, what are some low-cost alternatives, and when you should consider dedicated appliances or technology.

Architecting an HA solution is typically very customized ...

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