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28 The next page displays the progress of the installation. During this process, Setup installs the necessary
files and folders onto your system and applies the configuration you specified. Setup also installs
Heartbeat Diagnostics and configures it with the default settings.
29 Click Next after vCenter Server Heartbeat components are complete.
30 The vCenter Server Heartbeat Packet Filter driver installs on each network card of the production server.
If you see warnings that the driver is unsigned or did not complete the Windows Logo tests, click
Continue Anyway (Windows Server 2003) or Install (Windows Server 2008). If Windows is configured
to display Signed Driver warnings, you may see multiple warnings. The Report pane displays the results.
Click Next.
By default, the vCenter Server Heartbeat Packet Filter driver is applied to all Principal (Public) network
cards present on the machine. The vCenter Server Heartbeat Packet Filter is not applied to the network
cards forming VMware Channel connections as these cards maintain unique IP addresses irrespective of
the role of the server. vCenter Server Heartbeat also disables NetBIOS on the Channel NIC(s) to prevent
domain name conflicts on the subnet.
31 When the Setup wizard confirms the successful completion of the installation, click Finish.
32 The Configure Server wizard is launched and allows you to configure the Primary server for use with
non-identical nodes.
33 Click the Public tab and select Non-Identical (Updates MS DNS) or Non-Identical (for Locked Down
mode or non-Microsoft DNS server) as appropriate.
34 Enter the Service Name for the vCenter Server or SQL Server.
35 In the NIC drop-down, select the Principal (Public) NIC.
36 In the Public IP drop-down, select the Principal (Public) IP address assigned to the Principal (Public) NIC.
37 In the first Mask field, enter the Subnet Mask of the Principal (Public) IP address.
38 In the Passive IP field, enter a reserved Management IP address for the Primary server.
39 In the second Mask field, enter the Subnet Mask of the Management IP address.
40 Click Finish. Do not start vCenter Server Heartbeat.
Secondary Server
The process of installing vCenter Server Heartbeat on the Secondary server is similar to installing vCenter
Server Heartbeat on the Primary server.
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OTE If a previous version of Heartbeat Diagnostics is detected, vCenter Server Heartbeat Setup updates
it to the current version. To learn more about Heartbeat Diagnostics, see Getting Started with Heartbeat
Diagnostics on the VMware Web site.
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OTE If installing into an environment that uses Windows Server 2008 R2 for DNS, you must configure
a security level on the DNS server that permits changes to DNS.
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OTE The Service Name is the DNS name by which application clients connect to the application.
Normally this is the original name of the vCenter Server or SQL Server. There is only one Service Name
and it is the same on all servers in the cluster.
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OTE The Management IP address is unique for each server in the cluster.