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Table Of Contents
- Administrator Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Configuring vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Server Protection
- Checking the Server Pair Status
- Monitoring the Status of Servers
- Configuring Heartbeat Settings
- Network Protection
- Application Protection
- Applications: Summary Tab
- Resetting the Application Health Status
- Viewing Application Status
- Setting the Application Timeout Exception
- Remove an Application
- Manually Stop and Start 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
- Applications: Summary Tab
- Status and Control
- About vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Working with Groups
- Working with Pairs in vCenter Server Heartbeat Groups
- Reviewing the Status of vCenter Server Heartbeat Groups and Pairs
- Exiting vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- Shutting Down Windows Without Stopping vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Controlled Shutdown
- vSphere Web Client Plug-in
- Uninstalling vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Performance Protection
- Data Protection
- Alerts and Events
- Troubleshooting
- Two Active or Two Passive Servers
- Synchronization Failures
- Registry Status is Out-of-Sync
- Channel Drops
- Performance Issues
- Passive Server Does Not Meet Minimum Hardware Requirements
- Hardware or Driver Issues on VMware Channel NICs
- Firewall Connection
- Channel Fails to Connect After Configuring Firewall Ports
- Incorrect VMware Channel Configuration
- VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat Packet Filter Is Enabled on the Channel NIC(s)
- Subnet or Routing Issues
- MaxDiskUsage Errors
- Application Slowdown
- Glossary
4 To change the VMware Channel IP addresses, select and edit the entry in the table.
5 Click Next or Finish.
Configuring the Default Channel Port
VMware Channel uses the Default Channel Port to communicate between the Primary and Secondary server.
Do not change this port unless another application is using it.
Procedure
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To change the Default Channel Port, click the Channel tab, edit the default entry (57348), and click Next or
Finish.
Configure Low Bandwidth Optimization
Low Bandwidth Optimization is congured automatically during installation based upon the conguration
options selected during Setup. Low Bandwidth Optimization can be congured for: High Availability (HA)
when deployed as a pair in a LAN or Disaster Recovery (DR) when deployed over a WAN.
In a High Availability (HA) server pair, the queues and buers are optimized for a high-speed local area
network (LAN) connection, compression is disabled, and automatic failover between servers is enabled.
In a Disaster Recovery (DR) pair, the queues and buers are optimized for a low-bandwidth wide area network
(WAN) connection, compression may be used, and automatic failover between servers is disabled.
In a vCenter Server Heartbeat server pair you can choose the HA or DR topology. However, if you have
manually congured a non-standard topology, for example, by changing the Auto-Failover setting, then
Non-Standard will appear in the menu and you can choose to leave the non-standard topology option as it is,
or reset it to one of the standard topologies.
Note The same HA/DR conguration must be set on both servers in the pair.
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