Month : December 2014

You may be running you critical applications in a virtual datacenter protected with VMware vSphere High Availability today, but are you making good use of all the other VMware features that are available to protect your applications? You may want to take a few moments to review these features, some of which may not cost you any additional software licensing fees, and decide if any of these may be useful to help you comply with your Service Level Agreements (SLAs). Application Protection:  Feature = vSphere App HA -   monitors specific software application services that run in your virtual machines via custom VMware Tools heartbeats, identifies service failures, and restarts services as needed.  If the service restart is unsuccessful, then it could restart the virtual machine. Guest OS Protection:  Feature = vSphere High Availability - monitors