What is minimum vSphere offering that will support this requirement?

A small company wants to use VMware products for its production systems. The system
administrator needs to recommend a solution that will deliver High Availability to the company’s
production applications.
What is minimum vSphere offering that will support this requirement?

A small company wants to use VMware products for its production systems. The system
administrator needs to recommend a solution that will deliver High Availability to the company’s
production applications.
What is minimum vSphere offering that will support this requirement?

A.
vSphere Essentials

B.
vSphere Essentials Plus

C.
vSphere Hypervisor

D.
vSphere Standard

Explanation:

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babar.munir

babar.munir

B is correct

vSphere Essentials Plus supports App HA

http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/compare

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Michael095

Michael095

HA Features available in 5.5:
1) vSphere HA = VM Protection
2) App HA (aka Enhanced application availability) = Applications (ie. Production Apps)

KB 2001113 best shows that minimum for each is:
– vSphere High Availability = Essentials Plus
– App HA = Enterprise Plus 5.5 (new feature)

– http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2001113

You Decide:
VMware vSphere® High Availability (HA) delivers the availability required by most applications running in virtual machines, independent of the operating system and application running in it. HA provides uniform, cost-effective failover protection against hardware and operating system outages within your virtualized IT environment. HA can:

Monitor VMware vSphere® hosts and virtual machines to detect hardware and guest operating system failures.
Restart virtual machines on other vSphere hosts in the cluster without manual intervention when a server outage is detected.
Reduce application downtime by automatically restarting virtual machines upon detection of an operating system failure.

– See more at: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/high-availability#sthash.dGgVRUa9.dpuf

vSphere App HA leverages VMware vFabric to monitor applications. Deploying App HA begins with provisioning two virtual appliances (per vCenter Server): App HA and Hyperic. The App HA virtual appliance stores and manages App HA policies. Hyperic monitors applications and enforces App HA policies.

After the simple process of deploying the Hyperic and App HA virtual appliances, Hyperic agents are installed in the virtual machines containing applications that will be protected by App HA.
App HA Policies

App HA policies are easily configured in the Administration section of the vSphere Web Client. Policies define items such as the number of times App HA will attempt to restart a service, number of minutes it will wait for the service to start, the option to reset the virtual machine if the service fails to start, and reset the virtual machine when the service is unstable.
– See more at: http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/features/application-HA#sthash.LkJBOhyb.dpuf

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Ginni

Ginni

Please explain whether ans should be enterprise plus or essentials plus?
Coz both the above links says enterprise plus…
Thanks in advance!!!

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Michael095

Michael095

I agree the question is asking about application HA = Enterprise Plus 5.5

However, there is only Essentials in the choices so they must be referencing vSphere HA (VM HA (not application)).

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NetCat

NetCat

At the very bottom of the web page, there is a section for the following licenses:

Compare vSphere Essentials Kits

The Essentials Plus has the following features:
vSphere Hypervisor, vMotion, High Availability, Data Protection, vShield Endpoint, vSphere Replication.

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