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How is VMware HA Used?
VMware ESX VMware ESX VMware ESXi VMware HA allows companies to provide high availability to any
application running in a virtual machine. With VMware HA IT
organizations can:
Protect applications with no other failover option.
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Provide cost-effective high availability for any application
running in a virtual machine. High availability solutions are
Figure 1: VMware HA provides cost effective availability for all applications running often relatively complex and expensive, and as a result typically
in virtual machines.
reserved for mission critical applications. VMware HA provides
a cost-effective high availability solution that makes high
availability possible for software applications that were
formerly left unprotected.
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Establish consistent first line of defense for an entire
IT environment.
Unlike other high availability solutions that are tied to specific
operating systems or application and are often complex to use,
VMware ESX
VMware HA provides an easy to manage high availability
solution that can be deployed easily and uniformly across
heterogeneous environments.
Avoid the cost and complexity of failover solutions tied to
either operating systems or specific applications by using
VMware HA to provide protection with any hardware,
operating system, or application running in a virtual
Operating Server
infrastructure with minimum cost and management overhead.
Figure 2: VMware HA addresses server failures and OS failures within virtual machines.
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