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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition
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VMware vSphere 6.5 Cookbook - Third Edition

by Abhilash G B, Mathias Meyenburg, Cedric Rajendran
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
574 pages
14h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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How it works...

Under the hood, vSphere HA is a Fault Domain Manager (FDM). FDM leverages the concept of master and slave, that is, in a given cluster, there is an elected master that monitors the health of the other hosts in the cluster and also communicates the status with the vCenter. When the enable HA operation is initiated, each host in the cluster goes through a preparation state of activating an agent and enabling communication across the agents. The host that has the most numbers of datastores accessible wins the race to be the master. 

Once the master is elected, its key responsibilities are to:

  1. Monitor the hosts in terms of availability and maintain an inventory of the protected VMs and their power state from all the hosts.
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ISBN: 9781787127418