Failover Question

[QMAZE]

Good afternoon,

I am looking for the best way to add redundancy to our network in regards to a fail-over system. So currently we have one physical server that hosts EXSi with 3 VMs. If that server were to fail I would have zero redundancy, what kind of hardware would be required to have another piece of hardware take over should this scenario play out? Would I need 3 physical servers, one to run vCenter that in turn has 2 other physical hardware running as HA's or would I only need to invest another hardware server that each has vCenter, really green when it comes to that type of environment requirements. Hope I have made sense, appreciate any guidance or recommendations.

[e_espinel]

Hello.
If you require HA (high availability), you need vcenter server (this product requires own license) and at least one other ESXi host.

If your ESXi host uses a Free license you will need to purchase a paid license.

As you only have 3 VMs on your single ESXi host, I understand that your environment is small, your alternatives would be to purchase VMware vSphere kits:

If you only grow to a maximum of 3 ESXi hosts.
vmware vsphere essentials plus Kit (includes licenses for one vcenter server essentials and 3 ESXi hosts essentials (2 CPUs each)).

If you plan to start with 2 or 3 hosts and then keep on growing
vmware vsphere standard acceleration Kit (includes licenses for one vcenter server standard and 3 ESXi hosts standard (2 CPU each))