Best Practices and Advanced Features for VMware High Availability

• Setting the preferred failover host
• Changing the default isolation response address

• Changing the default timeout for failure and isolation detection
• Setting multiple isolation response addresses

• Changing the default isolation response settings at the cluster level
• Adjusting the default slot size used for HA admission control
• Individual virtual machine failure monitoring (Experimental)

For more details on the best practices and when to consider configuring the new features, refer to the attached document VMware HA: Overview & Technical Best Practices (HA_Best_Practices.pdf). The Appendix in the attached file provides instructions for configuring the features.