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VMware High Availability (HA)
Provide High Availability at a Lower Cost
Deliver high availability across your entire virtualized IT environment without the cost or complexity of clustering solutions. VMware HA provides cost-effective high availability for any application running in a virtual machine, regardless of its operating system or underlying hardware configuration. VMware HA eliminates the need for dedicated stand-by hardware and additional software.
Download the data sheet for more information or try it for yourself by downloading an evaluation copy of VMware Infrastructure.
Protect Your Infrastructure from Server Failure
VMware HA provides pervasive, cost-effective failover protection within your virtualized IT environment.
- Protect applications with no other failover options and make high availability possible for software applications that might otherwise be left unprotected.
- Establish a consistent first line of defense for your entire IT infrastructure.
Automatically Restart Virtual Machines
VMware HA is a feature-rich product that continuously monitors all physical servers in a resource pool and restarts virtual machines affected by server failure.
- Detects server failures automatically, using a “heartbeat” on servers.
- Monitors capacity continuously to ensure space is always available to restart virtual machines in the event of server failure.
- Restarts virtual machines almost instantly without human intervention on a different physical server within the same resource pool.
- Chooses the optimal physical servers within a resource pool on which to restart virtual machines (if used in conjunction with VMware DRS).
VMware HA is included in VMware Infrastructure Enterprise Edition and can be purchased as an add-on product to the Standard and Starter editions.Get more information on the VMware Infrastructure editions.
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