Preparing the Host for Fault Tolerance

1. Click on Home > Host and Clusters

   

    

2. Select a host and click on Manager > Networking > VMkernal adapters >

   

    

3. Select VMkernel Network Adapter and click on Next

   

    

    

4. Choose Select an existing network and click on Browse

   

    

    

5. Select the Fault Tolerance port group we selected earlier and click on OK

   

    

6. Click on Next

   

 

7. Select Fault Tolerance logging

   
    

    

8. Select Use static IPv4 settings and click on Next

   

    

9. Click on Finish

   

    

10. You should now see your new VMkernel adapter

    

 

 

11. Repeat these Same Procedure for each host you want to Enable Fault Tolerance

How to confirm your Host is ready for Fault Tolerance

1. Click on Home > Host and Clusters

   

    

    

2. Select Host > Summary and under Configuration verify that Fault Tolerance displays Supported
   

   

Now we need to enable Fault Tolerance to our Virtual Machine (Part 3)