Maximize uptime in your datacenter and reduce downtime management costs by enabling VMware Fault Tolerance for your virtual machines. VMware Fault Tolerance, based on vLockstep technology, provides zero downtime, zero data loss continuous availability for your applications, without the cost and complexity of traditional hardware or software clustering solutions.
- See what Washington State University says about Fault Tolerance
- Read the Fault Tolerance Whitepaper
- Check out what VMware engineering says about Fault Tolerance
- See Fault Tolerance in Action!
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Features
The following is a list of the key features of VMware Fault Tolerance. For a comprehensive list of VMware vSphere features download the key features summary.
Fault Tolerance
- Seamless stateful failover. Automatically trigger seamless stateful failover when the protected virtual machines fail to respond; resulting in zero downtime, zero data loss continuous availability
- Automatic creation of secondary virtual machines. Automatically trigger the creation of a new secondary virtual machine after failover, to ensure continuous protection to the application
- Compatibility with all types of shared storage. VMware Fault Tolerance works with all types of shared storage Fibre Channel, NAS or iSCSI
- Compatibility with all operating systems. VMware Fault Tolerance works with all operating systems* supported with VMware ESX
- Compatibility with exisiting DRS and HA clusters. VMware Fault Tolerance works with existing DRS and HA clusters** and only an additional dedicated gigabit Ethernet network
- Easy point and click administration. VMware Fault Tolerance can be turned on or off through an easy point and click action in vSphere Client, allowing administrators to use the capability as needed.
*VMware Fault Tolerance is supported with virtual machines with only a single virtual processor.
**VMware Fault Tolerance requires Intel 31xx, 33xx, 52xx, 54xx, 74xx or AMD 13xx,23xx, 83xx series of processors.
