Fujitsu V3.1 manual HA functionality supported by Virtual-IO Manager, Host failover with VMware HA

2.7 High-Availability (HA) support

Figure 13: Host failover with VMware HA

VMware HA links up multiple ESX/ESXi servers to form a cluster with shared resources. If one host fails, VMware HA reacts immediately by restarting any affected virtual machine on a different host. The cluster is created and managed via VirtualCenter.

For a detailed description of the high-availability functionality with VMware HA, visit http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_ha_wp.pdf.

HA functionality supported by Virtual-IO Manager

HA functionality is supported by Virtual-IO Manager by the following meas- ures:

•The central ServerView Virtual-IO Manager service is configured to be restarted automatically in the event of failure. This automatic restart of the service is configured during installation of Virtual-IO manager. By default the following restart behavior is configured:

oThe first restart of the service is tried 5 seconds after unexpected ter- mination of the service.

oThe second restart is tried 30 seconds after termination of the serv- ice.

oSubsequent restarts are tried 60 seconds after termination of the service.

oThe restart counter is reset after 600 seconds.

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