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Table Of Contents
- Administrator Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Getting Started
- Introduction
- Configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat
- System Administration and Management
- Server Protection
- Network Protection
- Application Protection
- Application Protection Overview
- Applications: Applications Tab
- Reset the Application Health Status
- View Application Status
- Setting the Application Timeout Exception
- Remove an Application
- Manually Start and Stop Applications
- Configuring Applications
- Application Maintenance Mode
- Reviewing the State of an Application
- Reviewing the Applications Log
- Filtering Application Log Entries
- Applications: Services Tab
- Applications: Tasks Tab
- Applications: Plug-ins Tab
- Status and Control
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- About vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Work with Groups and Pairs
- Add, Edit, Move, and Remove Pairs in VCenter Server Heartbeat Groups
- Review the Status of vCenter Server Heartbeat Groups and Pairs
- Exit vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Shut Down Windows Without Stopping vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Controlled Shutdown
- vSphere Client Plug-in
- Uninstall vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Performance Protection
- Data Protection
- Alerts and Events
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting Unexpected Behaviors
- Two Active Servers
- Two Passive Servers
- Synchronization Failures
- Registry Status is Out of Sync
- Channel Drops
- Subnet or Routing Issues
- MaxDiskUsage Errors
- MaxDiskUsage Error Messages
- [L9]Exceeded the Maximum Disk Usage (VCChannelExceededMaxDiskUsageException)
- [L9]Exceeded the Maximum Disk Usage on the ACTIVE Server
- [L9]Exceeded the Maximum Disk Usage on the PASSIVE Server
- [L20]Out of Disk Space (VCChannelOutOfDiskSpaceException)
- Application Slowdown
- Poor Application Performance
- Both Servers Can Accommodate the Initial Load but the Load Has Increased
- One Server Can Provide Adequate Resource Support, but the Other Cannot
- Scheduled Resource Intensive Tasks
- Glossary
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This chapter includes the following topics:
“Data Protection Overview” on page 59
“Replication” on page 60
“Registry and File Synchronization Status” on page 60
“Initiate a Full Registry Check” on page 60
“Initiate a Full System Check” on page 60
“Configure Fast Check” on page 60
“Initiate File Synchronization Manually” on page 61
“Initiate Verify and Synchronize Manually” on page 61
“Orphaned Files Check” on page 62
“File Filters” on page 63
“Determine Effective Filters” on page 64
“Add a User-Defined Exclusion Filter” on page 64
“Edit User Defined Inclusion/Exclusion Filters” on page 64
“Remove User-Defined Filters” on page 64
“Automatic Filter Discovery” on page 65
Data Protection Overview
vCenter Server Heartbeat can protect many permutations or combinations of file structures on the active
server by the use of custom inclusion and exclusion filters configured by the administrator. See “File Filters”
on page 63 for more information.
The filter driver identifies files to protect and disk I/O operations to intercept and replicate to the passive
server. Use this driver to filter files for inclusion in or exclusion from the replication process. By default,
vCenter Server Heartbeat protects a folder called Protected on the system partition.
The VMware application folder contains the active server ‘s send and passive server’s receive queues on the
active and passive servers. This folder must be explicitly excluded from file protection.
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NOTE vCenter Server Heartbeat forbids replicating certain files and folders by using a veto. If an inclusion
filter includes any of those files or folders, the entire filter is vetoed, even if an exclusion filter is used to prevent
replication of those files and folders. Examples of folders are the vCenter Server Heartbeat installation
directory or the system32 folder.