Posted on June 15th, 2009 by by Steve
There are several advantages to enabling hardware virtualization technology in the BIOS of your servers when using vSphere or ESX. These include the ability to use EVC (Enhanced vMotion Compatibility) on your DRS clusters, the use of 64bit OS guests, and using VMware FT (Fault Tolerance).
Turning Intel VT or AMD-V on must be done on [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2009 by by Steve
vmware.info has posted a really nice flash simulator for setting up Fault Tolerance in vSphere. This simulation gives you a great idea of how to configure and test the Fault Tolerance feature if you aren’t running vSphere in your lab. I’ll go more into what Fault Tolerance is, and how to use it in future posts. Until then, Check [...]
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Tags: compatible processors, Fault, fault tolerance, gigabit ethernet, harpertown, host requirements, Intel, physical cd, rdms, simulation, storage, system bios, Tolerance, VMware, vSphere
