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  • Ken Donoghue - Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - link

    VMware's ft product will be useful for some applications needing this level of protection. As you point out, it comes with a fair amount of overhead. It should also be noted that software-based fault-tolerance, as this is, does not support SMP, so applications are limited to a single processor core. An alternative that has been available for VMware software for over a year is hardware-based fault tolerance ... Intel-based platforms supporting SMP, Windows and Linux VMs, and with six-nines (!) uptime reliability. With VMware HA, this is the best availability you can get.
  • Alexvrb - Saturday, February 28, 2009 - link

    Only the Shadow VM knows!

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