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High Availability and Fault Tolerance
Module 11
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You Are Here
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage – Revision A
Course Introduction
Introduction to Virtualization
Virtual Machines
VMware vCenter Server
Configure and Manage Virtual Networks
Configure and Manage Virtual Storage
Managing Virtual Machines
Data Protection
Access & Authentication Control
Resource Management and Monitoring
High Availability
Scalability
Patch Management
Installing vSphere Components
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Importance
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Most organizations rely on computer-based services like email, databases, and Web-based applications. The failure of any of these services can mean lost productivity and revenue. Configuring highly available, computer-based services is extremely important for an organization to remain competitive in contemporary business environments.
With VMware vSphere® 5, a new high availability architecture has been released.
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Module Lessons
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Lesson 1: Introduction to vSphere High Availability
Lesson 2: Configuring vSphere High Availability
Lesson 3: vSphere High Availability Architecture
Lesson 4: Introduction to Fault Tolerance
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Lesson 1:Introduction to
vSphere High Availability
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Learner Objectives
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After this lesson, you should be able to do the following:
Describe the various options that you can configure to ensure high availability in a vSphere 5 environment.
Discuss the response of vSphere High Availability when a VMware® ESXi™ host, a virtual machine, or an application fails.
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VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage – Revision A
VMware Offers Protection at Every Level
NIC Teaming, Storage
Multipathing
VMware vSphere® vMotion®, DRS
vSphere Storage VMotion
Site Recovery Manager
Component Server Storage Data Site
3rd-Party Backup Solutions,
VMware Data Recovery
VMFS
VMFS
High Availability & Fault Tolerance
vSphere 5
VM
VMVM
Protection against hardware failures Planned maintenance with zero downtime Protection against unplanned downtime
and disasters
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vCenter Server Availability - Recommendations
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Make VMware vCenter Server™ and the components it relies on highly available.
vCenter Server relies on:
vCenter Server database:
• Cluster the database. Refer to the specific database documentation.
Active Directory structure:
• Set up with multiple redundant servers.
Methods for making vCenter Server available:
Use vSphere High Availability to protect the vCenter Server virtual machine.
Use VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat™.
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High Availability
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A highly available system is one that is continuously operational for a desirably long length of time.
Level of availability Downtime per year
99% 87 hours (3.5 days)
99.9% 8.76 hours
99.99% 52 minutes
99.999% 5 minutes
What level of virtual machine availability is
important to you?
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vSphere High Availability
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vSphere HA
Level of availability High availability
Amount of downtime Minimal
Guest operating systems supported Works with all supported guest operating systems
VMware ESXi hardware supported Works with all supported ESXi hardware
UsesUse to provide high availability for the virtual machines that require that level of protection.
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vSphere HA Failure Scenarios
ESXi host failure
Guest OS failure
Application failure
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LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3
High Availability Failure Scenario - Host
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virtual machine A
virtual machine B
virtual machine C
virtual machine F
vCenter Server
ESXi host ESXi hostESXi host
virtual machine D
virtual machine E
virtual machine A virtual machine B
When a host fails, vSphere HA restarts the affected virtual machines on other hosts
= vSphere HA cluster
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LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3
High Availability Failure Scenario – Guest Operating System
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vCenter Server
ESXi host ESXi host
= vSphere HA cluster
ESXi host
When a virtual machine stops sending heartbeats or the virtual machine process crashes (vmx), vSphere HA resets the virtual machine
virtual machine C
VMware tools VMware tools
virtual machine E
VMware tools
virtual machine F
VMware tools
virtual machine A
VMware tools
virtual machine BVMware tools
virtual machine D
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LUN 1 LUN 2 LUN 3
HA Failure Scenario - Application
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vCenter Server
ESXi host ESXi hostESXi host
virtual machine E
application When an application fails, vSphere HA restarts the affected virtual machine on the same host.
Requires VMware Tools to be installed
virtual machine C
application
virtual machine F
applicationvirtual machine D
application
virtual machine A
application
virtual machine B
application
= vSphere HA cluster
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Review of Learner Objectives
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You should be able to do the following:
Describe the various options that you can configure to ensure high availability in a vSphere 5 environment.
Discuss the response of vSphere High Availability when an ESXi host, a virtual machine, or an application fails.
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Lesson 2:Configuring vSphere High Availability
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Learner Objectives
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After this lesson, you should be able to do the following:
Configure a vSphere HA cluster.
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Enabling vSphere HA
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Enable vSphere HA by creating a cluster or modifying a vSphere Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) cluster.
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Configuring vSphere HA Settings
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Disable Host Monitoring when
performing maintenance
on any cluster/host. Enabled is the default setting.
Admission Controlrefers to the amount of available resourcesthat can be used to
start virtual machineson a specific ESXi
host. The default setting
is to disallow power and other operations that will violate the
set Admission Control Policy.
Admission control helps ensure sufficient resources to provide
high availability.Default setting is Host failures the cluster tolerates.
VMware recommended
setting
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Admission Control Policy Choices
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Policy Description Recommended use
Percentage of cluster resources reserved as failover spare capacity
Reserves specified percentage of total capacity
When virtual machines have highly variable CPU and memory reservations
Host failures cluster tolerates
Reserves enough resources to tolerate specified number of host failures
When virtual machines have similar CPU/memory reservations and similar memory overheads
Specify a failover host Dedicates a host exclusively for failover service
To accommodate organizational policies that dictate the use of a passive failover host
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Configuring Virtual Machine Options
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Configure options at the cluster level or per virtual machine.
VM restart priority determines relative order in which virtual machines are restarted after a host
failure.
Host Isolation response determines what happens to virtual machines when a host loses
the management network but continues running.
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Configuring Virtual Machine Monitoring
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Reset a virtual machine if its VMware Tools
heartbeat or VMware Tools application
heartbeats are not received.
Determine how quickly failures are
detected.
Set monitoring sensitivity for individual virtual machines.
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Importance of Redundant Heartbeat Networks
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In a vSphere HA cluster, heartbeats are:
Sent between the master and the slave hosts
Used to determine if a master or slave host has failed
Sent over a heartbeat network
The heartbeat network is:
Implemented using a VMkernel port marked for management
Redundant heartbeat networks:
Allow for the reliable detection of failures
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Redundancy Using NIC Teaming
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You can use NIC teaming to create a redundant heartbeat network on ESXi hosts.
Both port groups must be VMkernel ports.
NIC teaming on an ESXi host
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Redundancy Using Additional Networks
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You can also create redundancy by configuring more heartbeat networks:
On ESXi hosts, add one or more VMkernel networks marked for management traffic.
Configure port group with these settings:
Set Load Balancing to originating port ID.
Do not enable Failback.
Configure port group with active/standby failover.
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Network Configuration and Maintenance
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Before changing the networking configuration on the ESXi hosts (adding port groups, removing vSwitches):
Deselect Enable Host Monitoring.
Place the host inmaintenance mode.
These steps prevent unwanted attempts to fail over virtual machines.
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Cluster Resource Allocation Tab
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How much CPU and memory resources is the cluster using now?
How much reserved capacity remains?
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Monitoring Cluster Status
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The vSphere HA Cluster Status window displays details about host operational status, virtual machine protection, and heartbeat datastores
The Configuration Issues window displays the current vSphere HA operational status, including the specific status and errors for each master and slave host in the cluster.
cluster’s Summary tab
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Lab 18
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In this lab, you will modify slot sizes and admission control.
1. Create a cluster enabled for vSphere HA.
2. Add your ESXi host to a cluster.
3. Test vSphere HA functionality.
4. Prepare for the next lab.
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Review of Learner Objectives
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You should be able to do the following:
Configure a vSphere HA cluster.
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Lesson 3:vSphere High Availability Architecture
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Learner Objectives
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After this lesson, you should be able to do the following:
Describe heartbeat mechanisms used by vSphere HA.
Identify and discuss additional failure scenarios.
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vSphere HA Architecture: Agent Communication
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vCenter Server
ESXi host (slave)
FDM
ESXi host (master)
FDM
ESXi host (slave)
FDM
vpxd
hostdhostdhostd
datastore datastoredatastore
= Management network
vpxa vpxa vpxa
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vSphere HA Architecture: Network Heartbeats
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vCenter Server
virtual machine A
virtual machine B
virtual machine C
virtual machine D
virtual machine E
virtual machine F
ESXi host(slave)
ESXi host(slave)
ESXi host(master)
NAS/NFS VMFS Local
Management network 1
Management network 2
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vSphere HA Architecture: Datastore Heartbeats
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Management network 1
Management network 2
vCenter Server
virtual machine A
virtual machine B
virtual machine C
virtual machine D
virtual machine E
virtual machine F
ESXi host(slave)
ESXi host(master)
ESXi host(slave)
NAS/NFS VMFS Local
Cluster Edit Settings Window
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Additional HA Failure Scenarios
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Slave host failure
Master host failure
Host isolation
Management network failures
• Network partition
• Network isolation
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Failed Slave Host
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vCenter Server
virtual machine A
virtual machine B
virtual machine C
virtual machine D
virtual machine E
virtual machine F
ESXi host(slave)
ESXi host (master)
ESXi host(slave)
NAS/NFS(lock file)
?
file locks file locks
primary heartbeat network
alternate heartbeat network
VMFS(heartbeat region)
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Failed Master Host
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virtual machine A
virtual machine B
virtual machine C
virtual machine D
virtual machine E
virtual machine F
ESXi hostRole: slaveMOID: 98
ESXi hostRole: masterMOID: 99
file locks
NAS/NFS(lock file)
?
file locks
vCenter Serverprimary heartbeat network
alternate heartbeat network
MOID = managed object ID
default gateway(isolation address)
ESXi hostRole: slaveMOID: 100
VMFS(heartbeat region)
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Isolated Host
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virtual machine A
virtual machine B
virtual machine C
virtual machine D
virtual machine E
virtual machine F
ESXi host ESXi host
default gateway(isolation address)
ESXi host
The host is not observing any election traffic on the management and cannot ping its isolation address(es), the host is isolated.
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Design Considerations
Host isolation events can be minimized through good design
Implement redundant heartbeat networks
Implement redundant isolation addresses
If host isolation events do occur, good design enables vSphere HA to determine whether the isolated host is still alive
Implement datastores so that they are separated from the management network using one or both of the following approaches:
• Fibre Channel over fibre optic
• Physically separating your IP storage network from the management network
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Network Partition
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default gateway(isolation address)
virtual machine A
virtual machine B
ESXi hostMASTER
virtual machine C
virtual machine D
ESXi hostSLAVE
virtual machine E
virtual machine F
ESXi hostSLAVE
virtual machine G
virtual machine H
ESXi hostSLAVE
vCenter Server
MASTER
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Review of Learner Objectives
You should be able to do the following:
Describe heartbeat mechanisms used by vSphere HA
Identify and discuss additional failure scenarios
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Lesson 4:Introduction to Fault Tolerance
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Learner Objectives
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After this lesson, you should be able to do the following:
List Fault Tolerance requirements and limitations.
Describe Fault Tolerance operation.
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What Is Fault Tolerance (FT)?
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FT:
A fault-tolerant system is designed so that, in the event of an unplanned outage, a backup virtual machine can immediately take over with no loss of service. (The backup virtual machine is called a secondary virtual machine.)
• Provides a higher level of business continuity than vSphere HA
• Provides zero downtime and zero data loss for applications
FT can be used for any application that needs to be available at all times.
FT can be used with DRS:
Fault-tolerant virtual machines benefit from better initial placement and are included in the cluster’s load-balancing calculations.
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VMware Fault Tolerance
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Fault Tolerance
Level of availability Fault tolerance
Amount of downtime Zero
Guest operating systems supported Works with all supported guest operating systems
ESXi hardware supported Widely compatible
Uses Use to provide fault tolerance to your critical virtual machines.
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Fault Tolerance in Action
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FT provides zero-downtime, zero-data-loss protection to virtual machines in a vSphere HA cluster.
primary VM
secondaryVM
newprimary
VM
new secondary
VM
vLockstep technology vLockstep technology
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Fault Tolerance Guidelines
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Check the requirements and limitations of FT.
Ensure enough ESXi hosts for fault-tolerant virtual machines:
No more than four fault-tolerant virtual machines (primaries or secondaries) on any single host
Store ISOs on shared storage for continuous access:
Especially if used for important operations
Disable BIOS-based power management:
Prevents the secondary virtual machine from having insufficient CPU resources
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Enabling Fault Tolerance on a Virtual Machine
VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage – Revision A
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Review of Learner Objectives
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You should be able to do the following:
List Fault Tolerance requirements and limitations.
Describe Fault Tolerance operation.
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Key Points
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vSphere HA restarts virtual machines on the remaining hosts in the cluster.
Hosts in vSphere HA clusters have a master/slave relationship.
Implement redundant heartbeat networks either with NIC teaming or by creating additional heartbeat networks.
FT provides zero downtime for applications that need to be available at all times.