vSphere Fault Tolerance Feature API operations utility

1. Details

Utility to illustrate vSphere Fault Tolerance operations on provided Cluster and VM. Illustrates how to

• Enable, Poweron FT VM
• Disable, Enable Secondary VM
• Make Primary VM / Test Failover

Flow through of the solution:

• Connect to provided vCenter Server and Retrieve all Clusters. Check if user provided cluster exists and if vSphere HA is enabled on cluster.
• Search for user provided VM or Pick a VM from one of the clustered host
• Enable FT, monitor for secondary VM creation
• Power on FT VM, monitor for Secondary VM power state and FT Pair protection state
• Disable Secondary VM
• Enable Secondary VM, monitor for FT Pair protection state to restore (i.e enabled and running)
• Promote Secondary to Primary VM ('Test Failover' : Kill primary and check Secondary VM gets promoted to Primary and a new secondary VM gets created), monitor FT Pair protection state
• Revert the inventory state: Power off VM and Turn off FT

2. How to run the Utility?

Run from Dev IDE

• Import files under the src/faulttolerance/ folder into your IDE.
• Required libraries are embedded within Runnable-Jar/ftops.jar, extract & import the libraries into the project.
• Run the utility from 'RunApp' program by providing arguments like:
  --vsphereip 192.168.10.1 --username adminUser --password dummyPasswd --clusterName GuruCluster --vmName TestVM

Run from Pre-built Jars

• Copy/Download the ftops.jar from Runnable-jar folder (from the uploaded file) and unzip on to local drive folder say c:\ftops
• Open a command prompt and cd to the folder, lets say cd ftops
• Run a command like shown below to see various usage commands:
  C:\ftops>java -jar ftops.jar --help