Free/busy options high, with no shared storage

Here is a little history on our Setup. CurrentY we run vmware server 2.0 on centos 5.4 on both servers in a data center to remove. Currently, what we are doing is a manual process to a level of poormans HA. We create a snapshot of the virtual machine (sometimes) and you use rsync to synchronize the virtual machine on the other server. Each server has 2 mirrored disks and disk 1 not mirrored. If each server synchronizes the reader not mirrored.

I have a key for the company left, I wonder what would be my options for maximum availability with the two servers and HA. We would like to have the opportunity to have HA and FT, but the shared storage is not an option right now.

Thank you!

All VMware high availability options require a shred storage.

You can create virtual shared storage on warehouses of local data (updated mirror network) with the Virtual SAN PHDVirtual, HP Lefthand VSA or StarWind iSCSI.

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