I was just replaying Banjot Chanana’s session “VMware Availability Solutions and Futures“. Banjot is the product manager for the availability solutions HA and FT. I met Banjot in Palo Alto the week before VMworld and we spoke about HA, present and futures. Unfortunately I can’t elaborate on anything that has been discussed but I can however repeat what Banjot spoke about during his session at VMworld.
The most exciting part of the presentation, for me at least, start at roughly 35:40. Banjot start to elaborate on futures especially when the 3D model gets expanded with “Stretched Clusters with FT” and “Stretched HA Clusters” I start to get interested. Some bullet points on future developments:
- VM Component Protection -> loss of storage / loss of VM network -> fail-over / alert
Drives higher availability against granular outages - Stretched HA Clusters -> Carving up Clusters in “sub-clusters” by tagging VMs -> fail-over to other “sub-cluster” based on affinity
Drives higher availability against site failures - Application Monitoring -> Application awareness / correlation between infrastructure and application events -> SLA awareness also performance by using DRS
Drives higher availability against application / service failure - Host Retirement -> Host health scores would also indicate “VM readiness” of a host -> VMotion based on host health scores ->
Drives higher availability by monitor host health and taking action when thresholds are exceeded - Integrated Availability -> Availability Policies vs per VM settings -> Defining tiers and applying them to sets of VMs -> Based on SLA
Decreases operational efforts and increases availability by reducing “human errors”
Although some people were disappointed by the lack of announcements of new products I think there’s more than enough exciting features coming up if you know where to find them. Thanks Banjot for these insights,
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