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elfasso_137228
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Oct 16, 2014

HA-Group: include cluster?

Hi all,   I have a question regarding the setup of a HA-Group. I have two Viprion-Chassis with one Blade each, using vCMP (Software 11.4.1). I am just setting up High Availability between two gues...
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PeteWhite
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Oct 16, 2014

A cluster is a chassis and the blades contained. Therefore if you have guests striped across multiple blades then the number of blades active within a cluster can be used to control HA.

 

For example, if you have 4 blades in each cluster and have "Include Cluster" configured then if a blade fails on one cluster, those guests will failover to the device with the most blades.