Section 4 – Manage Business Continuity and Protect Data
Objective 4.1 – Implement and Maintain Complex VMware HA Solutions
Knowledge
- Identify the three admission control policies for HA
- Identify heartbeat options and dependencies
Skills and Abilities
- Calculate host failure requirements
- Configure customized isolation response settings
- Configure HA redundancy
- Management Network
- Datastore Heartbeat
- Network partitions
- Configure HA related alarms and monitor an HA cluster
- Create a custom slot size configuration
- Understand interactions between DRS and HA
- Analyze vSphere environment to determine appropriate HA admission control policy
- Analyze performance metrics to calculate host failure requirements
- Analyze Virtual Machine workload to determine optimum slot size
- Analyze HA cluster capacity to determine optimum cluster size
Tools
vSphere Availability Guide
Product Documentation
vSphere Client
Objective 4.2 – Deploy and Test VMware FT
Knowledge
- Identify VMware FT hardware requirements
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1008027
- Identify VMware FT compatibility requirements
Skills and Abilities
- Modify VM and ESXi host settings to allow for FT compatibility
- Use VMware best practices to prepare a vSphere environment for FT
http://www.vmware.com/download/shared_utilities.html
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/fault_tolerance_recommendations_considerations_on_vmw_vsphere4.pdf
- Configure FT logging
- Prepare the infrastructure for FT compliance
- Test FT failover, secondary restart, and application fault tolerance in a FT Virtual Machine
Tools
vSphere Availability Guide
Product Documentation
vSphere Client