VMware vSphere HA capabilities ease VM management

Techtarget | June 21, 2019

VM monitoring tools are an essential part of creating and managing a virtual environment. VMware vSphere HA offers features such as disk and network monitoring, heartbeat customization and affinity rules, all of which are helpful for IT administrators who oversee virtual environments. Once admins have set up vSphere High Availability (HA) correctly, they can use it to monitor and restart VMs. By using tools such as Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and Admission Control in conjunction with vSphere HA, admins can address VM issues such as failed restarts and resource limitations. Though vSphere HA offers different features to protect a virtualized environment, admins can't use it to its full potential without proper setup. VMware vSphere HA is a cluster technology that uses a Fault Tolerance feature, which prevents downtime for workloads that run on VMs and helps avoid a failure in a clustered environment.

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