Hi there,
I am studying for VCP and already set up a lab environment at home to practice. I know FT is not officially supported on nested esxi but I would like to ask anyway.
I have a SuperMicro board X9SPV-LN4F-3QE with 16GB ram with ESXi 5.1 on it. Hardware was successfully recognized and I created 3 VMS:
1) vCenterAppliance ( 4GB )
2) Esxi1-nested ( 4GB )
3) Esxi2-nested ( 4GB )
4) Nas1-nested ( 1GB ) - this is a Centos with nfs and iscsi daemon
I am using the two esxi's management network for FT and vMotion ( I know again this is not ideal, but for a personal lab should be ok )
Not using any particular Resource Pools or other kind of personalisation, apart from where stated.
I created a cluster with the 2 esxi in it, and then created a vm on it ( centos 6 32 bit , 512 MB ram ) on shared storage ( iScsi on Nas1-nested ).
For vMotion it's all good and the vm is running very well I 'd say.
So I enabled FT ( with DRS disabled ) and it went through.
The problem is when I power up the vm, basically it takes ages, and after 10 minutes when it's powered on and running, I can see ping drops. I also noticed, especially when booting up, that the vms gets moved to the esxi where it's not currently running, and then it gets moved backward and forward.
I know running FT is not just like running 2vms of the same type, but I wasn't expeciting such poor performances. At the very end it's just a 512mb vm.
Can you please advise ?
Thanks in advance