Scenario 13

Scenario:

Your HA cluster contains hosts that have identical hardware. It currently provides automatic high availability for all VMs but is not configured to provide fault tolerance for any VM. You need to prepare an ESXi host for FT following VMware best practices.

Requirements:

Configure a distributed port group and a distributed virtual switch to be used for FT logging, ensuring that VMware best practices are applied, except use only one uplink per ESXi host.

On one ESXi host, identify the best network adapter (from the available network adapters) to use for FT and connect the ESXi host to the distributed virtual switch, using the identified adapter.

Configure one ESXi host for FT logging.

Do not actually protect any VMs with FT.

Environment Information:

ESXi host: host-02.labl.local

Distributed virtual switch: dvSwitch04

Distribute port group: FT-1

Available network adapters for FT: vmnic6, vmnic7

Objective: 4.2 Deploy and Test VMware FT

Guide Reference(s):

Chapter 5 - VMware Fault Tolerance – FT Logging Configuration

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Solution

Navigate to Inventory > Networking and select dvSwitch04.
Right-click dvSwitch04, select Edit Settings.
Select the Properties tab > Advanced.
Set the maximum MTU to 9000.
Right-click dvSwitch04 and select New distributed port group.
Name the port group FT-1.
Right-click the dvSwitch04 and attach the host host-02.lab.local using vmnic7, which has higher bandwidth than the other available adapter.
Navigate to Inventory > Hosts and Clusters and select host-02.lab.local.
Click Configuration tab > Networking > Distributed virtual switch.
Click manage virtual adapters.
Use the Add button to create a new vmkernel virtual adapter.
For the Select a port group option, select the FT-1 port group.
Select Use this adapter for fault tolerance logging.