ONIX-VMHA 0.9 Beta is now availability

What is VMHA?

It is a High Availability package for VMware ESX 2.x,
It supports when one ESX host is dies, another ESX member will Take-over and Power-on all VM in 3 minute.

VMHA discussion In VMware Communities

How it works?

It detect the heartbeat between 2 ESX member and use ESX functions to control vm status.

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Benefits:

For the most mission critical applications high availability, we use middle-ware
such as Microsoft and Veritas clustering software to bind two redundant servers into a hot-standby pair.
VMware supports 3 types for Clustering:

• Cluster in a Box
• Cluster Across Boxes
• Physical to Virtual Clustering

There are using same clustering software as physical to physical machine clustering.
Thus it reduced Hardware cost allows implementation of HA,
but it still must at least double licenses for OS and Application.

The VMHA is a Physical ESX level cluster, it bind two redundant ESX servers into a hot-standby pair.
When ESX Server 1 is down, the ESX Server 2 will take-over all VMs on ESX Server1.
You only spend the VMs Power-on time.

Download:

Free for Trial, download ONIX-VMHA 0.9 beta version from here.

Document:

ONIX-VMHA Installation Guide (HTML | PDF)

Feedback:

If you have any questions about this program or have it up and running, we would like to hear from you:

please send e-mail to cmliu86@gmail.com