One of the best things about VMware is that, if everything is setup correctly, a cluster can experience a host failure or a host isolation with very little impact to the guests within that cluster. However, as nice as it is to experience a failure and not get paged at 3AM, it helps to know what failed and when. By default, VMware vCenter 4.1 doesn’t ship with any HA alarms. Let’s take a minute to get one setup.
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