This is a response to the new vSphere Blogging contest that was announced in the middle of this month. I truly think that it's a cool idea, and I believe that regardless of winning or losing, the excitement and fun a blogger would have during his/her participation is something awesome by itself.
The rules say that [...]

And finally some real action of the new amazing vSphere's Fault Tolerance. In this video we'll do the following in order:

Verify that the FT logging is enabled on our network card.
Enable the FT on one VM.
Observe that the VM has two instances, the primary running on one ESX server, and the secondary running on a [...]

We've all worked with our traditional Windows clusters and enjoyed the great availability it can deliver to us, but we've been only limited with the so-called "cluster aware" applications in order to enjoy this great uptime. Then when we all experienced the great virtualization technologies, and saw what VMware HA can deliver, no matter what [...]