Fault tolerant in consolidation scenarios

How do people manage fault tolerance in consolidation scenarios? A client can know in advance that they want to use Fault Tolerance on some servers. Obviously, using fault tolerant on a percentage of servers has the potential to affect the number of servers required.

The Consolidation scenario does not take into account FT AFAIK.

You manually cover an instance of the virtual machine on ESX hosts as the failure of FT and must ensure that the customer is aware that there is a load CPU and additional network for her.

Kind regards

EvilOne

VMware vExpert 2009

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