Where does Fault Tolerance store the primary and secondary virtual machine files?

Where does Fault Tolerance store the primary and secondary virtual machine files?

Where does Fault Tolerance store the primary and secondary virtual machine files?

A.
Only local storage

B.
Only shared storage

C.
Both shared and local storage

D.
SSD

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rishab

rishab

Answer is C

New version of FT keeps the Separate copies of VM files like .VMX, .VMDk files to protect primary VM from both Host and Storage failures. You are allowed to keep both Primary and Secondary VM files on different datastore.

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Rob

Rob

Answer is B – this is from the above KB article.

There are several important considerations relative to storage for VMware Fault Tolerance. Ensure each of the following are configured for your environment to enable VMware Fault Tolerance:

The virtual machine must reside on shared storage. This is storage that is visible to all ESX hosts in the cluster.
Storage must be FC SAN, iSCSI or NFS, but not local storage.
Virtual RDMs are supported, but Physical RDMs are not.
Virtual Disk files must be Thick Provisioned. For more information, see Turning on, or enabling Fault Tolerance for a powered on virtual machine with lazyzeroed disks fails (1009866).
Virtual machines cannot have snapshots. If there are snapshots, these must be committed before proceeding.

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Yoshimoto

Yoshimoto

Answer C

This KB article is valide for vsphere 5.x.
On vsphere 6.x you can do this operation.

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BB

BB

B , You won’t be able to setup FT if you choose local storage for primary or secondary.

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