Im hosting a few websites on a single ESXi box that runs Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS 7. Now I would like to make sure that if the host goes down, the websites will still be live, so I've ordered a 2nd ESXi 5.1 box from LeaseWeb.
Both servers are free ESXi versions, they only have 1 nic, are not on a private network and don't have access to shared storage. What would be the best way to make sure when one machine goes down, the website are still reachable?
I could spin up a vm with ha proxy, but I'd need to load balance them too; what would be the best way to do that?
So, in summary; 2 stand-alone ESXi 5.1 boxes; what's the best way to utilise them to handle one of the two boxes failing?
Thanks,
Nick.