VMware vsphere FT

VMware Fault Tolerance (FT)is being one of my favorite feature and because of its vcpus limitation, It was wasn't helping to protect the Mission Critical Applications. With VSphere 6.0, VMware broken the limitation lock of Fault tolerance. FT VM now Supports upto 4 vcpus and up to GB of RAM(which was 1 Vcpus and the RAM in VSphere 5.5). With this VSMP support, now FT can be used to protect your Mission Critical applications. Along with the VSMP ft support, there is lot more features have been added in FT with VSphere 6.0, let's take a look at WH At the ' s new in VSphere 6.0 Fault tolerance (FT).

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Benefits of VMware Fault tolerance

• Continuous availablity with zero downtime and zero data loss

• NO TCP connections Loss during failover

• Fault tolerance is completely transparent to Guest OS.

• FT doesn ' t depend on Guest OS and application

• Instantaneous Failover from Primary VMs to secondary VMS in case of ESXi host failure

What's New in VSphere 6.0 Fault tolerance

• VMware faut tolerance supports upto 4 Vcpus and GB RAM

• Fast check-pointing, A new scalable technology is introduced to keep primary and secondary in Sync by re Placing "Record-replay"

• VSphere 6.0, Supports vMotion of both Primary and secondary Virtual machine

• With VSphere 6.0, you'll be able to backup your virtual machines. FT supports for vstorage APIs for Data Protection (VADP) and it also supports all leading VADP solutions in the market like Sy Mantec, EMC, HP, etc.

• With VSphere 6.0, FT Supports all Virtual Disk Type like EZT, Thick or Thinprovisioned disks. It supports Eager zeroed Thick with VSphere 5.5 and earlier versions

• Snapshot of VMware Fault torelance configured Virtual machines is supported with VSphere 6.0

• New version of FT keeps the separate copies of VMS files like. VMX,. VMDk files to protect primary VMs from both Host and Storage failures. You is allowed to keep both Primary and secondary VMS files on different datastore.

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difference between vsphere 5.5 and vsphere 6.0 Fault tolerance (FT)

VMware vsphere FT