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VMware - Optimized your datacenter with production-proven server virtualization.VMware High Availability (HA)

Provide Uniform High Availability at a Lower Cost

 

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Deliver high availability across your entire virtualized IT environment without the cost or complexity of traditional 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.

VMware HA - Protect Your Infrastructure from Multiple Sources of Failure

Protect Your Infrastructure from Multiple Sources of 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.
  • Protect applications from OS related failures by automatically restarting virtual machines when failure is detected (experimental mode).
  • Establish a consistent first line of defense for your entire IT infrastructure.

VMware HA - Automatically Restart Virtual MachinesAutomatically 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.

  • Monitors and detects virtual machines for “guest OS” failures and automatically starts virtual machines after user-specified intervals.
  • Detects server failures automatically, using a “heartbeat” on servers.
  • Restarts virtual machines almost instantly without human intervention on a different physical server within the same resource pool.
  • Continuously monitors and 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.

Benefits:

  • Minimize un-planned downtime and IT service disruption
  • Eliminate the need for dedicated stand-by hardware and the installation of additional software
  • Enable affordable uniform high availability across the entire virtualized IT environment
  • Avoid the cost and complexity of failover solutions tied to either operating systems or specific applications

VMware High Availability (HA) Feature:

  • Scalable high availability across multiple physical servers. Support up to 32 nodes in a cluster for high application availability.
  • Automatic detection of server failures. Virtual machines with VMware HA provide an easy to use and cost-effective failover solution to protect against server failures.
  • Enhanced support for monitoring failures within virtual machines (experimental). VMware HA detects operating system failures within virtual machines through monitoring heartbeat information. If a failure is detected, based upon user-defined time intervals, the affected virtual machine
  • Automatic restart of virtual machines. Protect any application with automatic restart in a different physical server in the resource pool.
  • Improved overall reliability through enhanced isolation address response. This capability enhances reliability in confirming network failure on the service console by allowing multiple addresses to be pinged before declaring that a node is isolated in the cluster.
  • Resource checks. Ensure that capacity is always available in order to restart all virtual machines affected by server failure. HA continuously monitors capacity utilization and “reserves” spare capacity to be able to restart virtual machines.
  • Proactive monitoring and health checks. VMware HA helps VMware Infrastructure users identify abnormal configuration settings detected within HA clusters. This keeps unhandled failure conditions and errors from happening more than once. The VMware Infrastructure client interface reports relevant health status and potential error conditions and suggested remediation steps.
  • Smart failover of virtual machines (when used with VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler). Automate the optimal placement of virtual machines to servers with best available resources after server failure.

 

VMware Documentation
Download the VMware High Availability (HA) Product Brochure (PDF).

Pricing Notes:

  • Support and Subscription is mandatory for all VMware products except VMware Workstation, VirtualCenter for VMware Server, and VMware Server.
  • SLS (Support & Limited Subscription) is priced at 16% and 20% of list price for Gold and Platinum Support, respectively. Under SLS, customers get full technical support, new minor product releases and bug fixes on the major product release train at the time of purchase. Major upgrades are not included under SLS. (example VI3 to VI4)
  • SnS (Support & Subscription) is priced at 21% and 25% of list price for Gold and Platinum Support, respectively (Pricing varies for Starter Edition)
  • All upgrade SKUs must be purchased with a standard gold or platinum SLS (Support & Limited Subscription) or SnS (Support and Subscription) based on the list price of the upgraded product - for pricing and more details on this required purchase, please contact us.
  • Support times shown are for North & South American customers only - Gold Support response time is 4 hours for Severity One incidents, but resolution time could vary.
VMware Product
VMware High Availability 2
VMware HA 2 for 2 processors
Electronic Delivery of Licenses - Click here for more information
#VI-HA-C
List Price: $2,495.00
Our Price: $2,238.00
VMware High Availability 2 Support/Subscriptions
VMware High Availability 2 Gold Support, Subscription, 1 Year
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VMware High Availability 2 Gold Support, Subscription, 3 Years
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VMware High Availability 2 Platinum Support, Subscription, 1 Year
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VMware High Availability 2 Platinum Support, Subscription, 2 Years
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VMware High Availability 2 Platinum Support, Subscription, 3 Years
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Our Price: $1,591.20

 

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