VMware High Availability

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high availability solution vSphere feature

VMware High Availability is a vSphere feature that automatically detects host failures and restarts affected virtual machines on healthy hosts to minimize downtime.

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All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
VMware High Availability canonical	3
vSphere High Availability	2
VMware HA	1
VMware vSphere High Availability	1
vSphere HA	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9632490 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: VMware High Availability
Context triple: [VMware ESXi, supports, VMware High Availability]

A. VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere is VMware’s flagship virtualization and cloud computing platform for building and managing virtualized data centers and private clouds.
B. VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage solution that integrates with VMware vSphere to pool and manage local storage resources across a cluster of ESXi hosts for virtualized workloads.
C. VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor from VMware that enables virtualization by running multiple virtual machines directly on server hardware without a traditional underlying operating system.
D. VMware
VMware is a leading American cloud computing and virtualization technology company known for its pioneering hypervisor and software-defined data center solutions.
E. vCenter Server
vCenter Server is VMware’s centralized management platform that allows administrators to configure, monitor, and manage multiple vSphere virtualized environments from a single interface.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: VMware High Availability
Target entity description: VMware High Availability is a vSphere feature that automatically detects host failures and restarts affected virtual machines on healthy hosts to minimize downtime.

A. VMware vSphere
VMware vSphere is VMware’s flagship virtualization and cloud computing platform for building and managing virtualized data centers and private clouds.
B. VMware vSAN
VMware vSAN is a software-defined storage solution that integrates with VMware vSphere to pool and manage local storage resources across a cluster of ESXi hosts for virtualized workloads.
C. VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor from VMware that enables virtualization by running multiple virtual machines directly on server hardware without a traditional underlying operating system.
D. VMware
VMware is a leading American cloud computing and virtualization technology company known for its pioneering hypervisor and software-defined data center solutions.
E. vCenter Server
vCenter Server is VMware’s centralized management platform that allows administrators to configure, monitor, and manage multiple vSphere virtualized environments from a single interface.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	high availability solution ⓘ vSphere feature ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	VMware HA ⓘ linked to: VMware High Availability vSphere HA ⓘ linked to: VMware High Availability
configurationScope	per-cluster ⓘ
configuredAt	cluster level in vSphere ⓘ
configuredUsing	vSphere Client ⓘ
dependsOn	cluster resource capacity ⓘ reliable management network ⓘ
detects	ESXi host failures ⓘ application failures (with App Monitoring) ⓘ guest operating system failures ⓘ
developedBy	VMware ⓘ
goal	automate recovery from host failures ⓘ increase availability of virtualized workloads ⓘ reduce unplanned downtime ⓘ
hasComponent	HA agent on each ESXi host ⓘ
hasFeature	Admission Control ⓘ Application Monitoring ⓘ Datastore Heartbeating ⓘ Host Monitoring ⓘ Proactive HA (with hardware health integration) ⓘ VM Monitoring ⓘ
introducedInProduct	VMware Infrastructure 3 ⓘ linked to: VMware vSphere early versions of VMware vSphere ⓘ
monitors	VM heartbeat via VMware Tools ⓘ application heartbeat (when configured) ⓘ host heartbeats ⓘ
partOf	VMware vSphere ⓘ
primaryFunction	minimize virtual machine downtime ⓘ provide automatic virtual machine restart after host failure ⓘ
protects	virtual machines in a vSphere cluster ⓘ
reactsTo	application hangs (with App Monitoring) ⓘ guest OS crashes ⓘ host hardware failures ⓘ host isolation events ⓘ
requires	ESXi hosts ⓘ shared storage or vSAN for protected VMs ⓘ vCenter Server ⓘ
runsOn	vSphere cluster ⓘ
supports	automatic VM restart on application failure (with VMware Tools/App Monitoring) ⓘ automatic VM restart on guest OS failure ⓘ automatic VM restart on host failure ⓘ automatic VM restart on host isolation ⓘ
uses	admission control policies ⓘ cluster heartbeats ⓘ datastore heartbeats ⓘ master and slave host roles (pre-vSphere 6.5) ⓘ network heartbeats ⓘ primary and secondary agents (older versions) ⓘ

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