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You can buy them bare and add the requisite capacity. Something like an MSA SAS-attached array is an option and can work with VMware and two hosts.
Shared storage becomes a point of failure, depending upon how it's architected.
Add ILO monitoring, comprehensive hardware health checks, and the range of uptime-impacting items is reduced to DIMM failures and system board problems. Seriously, redundant power supplies, redundant fans, RAIDing of internal disks, the onboard NIC and FLR adapters rarely fail. You may encounter individual component failures, but there are enough internal redundancies to deal with most issues gracefully. An HP ProLiant Gen9 server isn't just going to fail. Servers are more reliable than you expect, especially when working with quality systems like HP ProLiant. Okay, maybe someone does, but there are too many restrictions, and the use case is particularly narrow. Think really hard about what you're trying to protect. Thus would really really appreciate any recommendation on my options. Yet, we need the shared storage for HA/FT. Our storage capacity requirement is probably around 200GB, and we don't see that doubling for at least 5 years. This is, I think, where it gets interesting: even the cheapest entry level storage array out there is probably an overkill for us.
I understand we need minimum of 2 ESXi host (physical server) and shared storage to achieve HA/FT.
#Vmware esxi 6 high availability manual
We need HA/FT because I'm the one-man-IT-team and I am often away traveling so manual failover/restore is not an option.
#Vmware esxi 6 high availability how to
We are now looking at how to achieve HA/FT using the most economical option. At the moment, we have one HP D元80 G9 with DAS, with ESXi 6.0, running our custom developed application.
The company I work for is a small business. I am asking for technology recommendation. I am seeking recommendations for shared storage options to support ESXi HA cluster (note I'm NOT asking for product/brand/model recommendation - I know this is against the rules here).