reuben.anderson (1/19/2011)
We're undergoing an enterprise consolidation and virtualisation project at the moment, and I currently have an external consultant proposing to replace our physical, clustered SQL Servers, with non-clustered VM's where the high availability is provided by VMWare HA.Does anyone have a view on this? Any serious pitfalls / constraints to take into consideration?
Thanks in advance.
Reuben
Rueben, ensure the VMotion network is on a dedicated, fast, secure network as VM configs including memory maps are passed unencrypted.
george sibbald (1/19/2011)
I believe that would mean you only have failover at the host level, not individual virtual servers.
a cluster configured for VMWare HA will provide failover to another ESX host in the HA cluster for any VM previously located on the failed ESX host
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