Sure thing Roo.  Yes, if your RTT between sites is greater than 1ms, then you will not be able to use VMware FT or cross-connect -- so a site failure would involve VMs being restarted via VMware HA at the surviving site.  Offhand, I don't know of customers who have deployed VMware FT over VPLEX Metro without cross-connect -- but that doesn't mean there aren't people doing it [IMAGE]   The fact that we lean towards using FT and cross-connect together is more of a qualification/testing thing rather than a functional thing. There's no reason it shouldn't work; most customers who choose to deploy FT with VPLEX also choose to use cross-connect, as they both have the same latency requirements, and deploying both together provides the highest levels of availability. So our qualification testing has focused on FT+cross-connect -- the most popular use case.  Yes, PowerPath/VE (recommended for cross-connect) would be deployed with your ESXi build. You can find the installation guide here: [URL]  Thanks,  - Sean
Hi Guys,  Can someone point me to some reading on whether I need to merge fabric between 2 sites where I have VPLEX Clusters or what options I have?  I am looking for information related to VMware Clustering and Microsoft Cluster, for which I believe I will need VPLEX Metro  Thanks Roo
VPLEX: Fabric Merge