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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
4Network Protection
vCenter Server Heartbeat proactively monitors the network by polling up to three predened nodes to ensure
that the active server is visible on the network.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Communications Status,” on page 41
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“Reviewing the VMware Channel Status,” on page 41
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“Conguring Public Network Connection Checks,” on page 42
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“Enabling Automatic Switchover in a WAN,” on page 42
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“Setting Max Server Time Dierence,” on page 43
Communications Status
Use the Data: Trac/Queues page to check the status of the VMware Channel, the active server’s send, and
passive server’s receive queues.
Reviewing the VMware Channel Status
The Data: Trac/Queues page displays the VMware Channel status.
The status can be displayed as:
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Connected - A green solid arrow icon
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Waiting - An orange solid icon is displayed when the channel has just disconnected. vCenter Server
Heartbeat will wait for a congured amount of time before deciding the channel is disconnected.
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Not connected - A red broken line icon)
The statistics of the connection with regards to the data sent by either server, and the size and age of the oldest
entry in the active server’s send queue and passive server’s receive queue are displayed on this page. The
Channel Connection tab in the lower pane displays the IP addresses used by the VMware Channel for the Primary
to Secondary connections and the port that the communications are using.
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