vSphere Fault Tolerance 16 vCPU support demo’d at VMworld

As you all know as of now VMware only support 1 vCPU virtual machines. But todays virtual machines are demanding to have more than one vCPU. So hardly customers benefitted by this feature.

Rumours were floating when vSphere 5.1 was to be released that 4 vCPU support for FT was to come but that didn’t happen. I personally got frustrated since I know there is this feature from VMware that’s too awesome but cannot use it due to its limitation.

But this VMworld there was a session VMworld 2013: Session BCO5065 – vSphere Fault Tolerance for Multiprocessor VMs – Technical Preview by Jim Chow and Xu Wei presenting a 16 vCPU support for Fault Tolerance.

The session of 59 minutes and 45 seconds long is recorded and is on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu69VjLhkdw&feature=youtube_gdata

Our beloved Vladan Seget has blogged about this in his blog too.
http://www.vladan.fr/16-vcpu-vms-for-fault-tolerance/

Hopefully with the next vSphere release this should be a feature to lookout for…