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Re:Reasons Kubernetes is so complex by felipelemos on Thursday January 27, 2022 @11:43AM (#30102720)
> VMWare has had a high availability mode for over a decade. It keeps checkpoints of system state elsewhere and synchronously replicates them.

So you don't have one VM's, but two. In case of Op's scenario you are paying for 196 CPUS instead of 98.

> If the primary reboots, it checkpoints RAM to the secondary pauses the VM and unpauses it on the secondary a few milliseconds later.

So a very small downtime, but not 0.

Re:Reasons Kubernetes is so complex by hedora on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:09PM (#30107565)
It depends on your SLA. Under 10ms 99.9% of the time is pretty tight. Even if the migration takes a second, you'll meet your SLA for the hour.