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2V0-622 · Question #177

An administrator is attempting to enable Legacy Fault Tolerance (FT) on a virtual machine and observes the following in the vSphere Web Client: Fault Tolerance has not been licensed on host <hostname>

The correct answer is A. Standard. Legacy Fault Tolerance is included starting with vSphere Standard edition, making it the minimum license required to enable this feature.

Section 6 – Administer vSphere 6.5 Availability

Question

An administrator is attempting to enable Legacy Fault Tolerance (FT) on a virtual machine and observes the following in the vSphere Web Client:

Fault Tolerance has not been licensed on host <hostname>. What is the minimum licensed edition that supports this configuration?

Options

  • AStandard
  • BEnterprise
  • CEnterprise Plus
  • DEssentials Plus

How the community answered

(61 responses)
  • A
    85% (52)
  • B
    5% (3)
  • C
    8% (5)
  • D
    2% (1)

Why each option

Legacy Fault Tolerance is included starting with vSphere Standard edition, making it the minimum license required to enable this feature.

AStandardCorrect

vSphere Standard is the minimum edition that includes Fault Tolerance licensing. Legacy FT, which protects VMs with up to 1 vCPU, is available in Standard, Enterprise, and Enterprise Plus editions, so Standard satisfies the minimum requirement.

BEnterprise

Enterprise includes FT but is not the minimum edition - Standard also provides this feature, making Enterprise a higher-than-necessary requirement.

CEnterprise Plus

Enterprise Plus includes FT but is not the minimum edition required, as lower-tier editions already include this capability.

DEssentials Plus

Essentials Plus is a small-business SKU that does not include Fault Tolerance licensing, making it insufficient for this configuration.

Concept tested: vSphere FT minimum licensing edition requirement

Source: https://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/compare.html

Topics

#Fault Tolerance#licensing#Legacy FT#Standard edition

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