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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
About This Book
The Administrator Guide provides information about conguring VMware vCenter Server Heartbeat server
network protection, application protection, data protection, Split-brain Avoidance, and more. To help you
protect your VMware vCenter Server, this book provides an overview of the protection oered by vCenter
Server Heartbeat and the actions that vCenter Server Heartbeat can take in the event of a network, hardware,
or application failure.
Intended Audience
This guide assumes the reader has a working knowledge of networks including the conguration of TCP/IP
protocols and domain administration on the Windows™ 2003 and 2008 platforms, notably in Active Directory
and DNS.
VMware Technical Publications Glossary
VMware Technical Publications provides a glossary of terms that might be unfamiliar to you. For denitions
of terms as they are used in VMware technical documentation go to www.vmware.com/support/pubs.
Overview of Content
This book is designed to provide guidance on the conguration and administration of vCenter Server Heartbeat,
and is organized into the following sections:
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Preface — About This Book (this chapter) provides an overview of this guide and the conventions used
throughout.
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Chapter 1 — Introduction presents an overview of vCenter Server Heartbeat concepts including the
Switchover and Failover processes.
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Chapter 2 — Conguring vCenter Server Heartbeat shows you how to use the Server Conguration wizard
to congure your new installation of vCenter Server Heartbeat.
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Chapter 3 — Server Protection presents an overview of how vCenter Server Heartbeat provides protection
against server system crash or server hardware failure, shows you how to check the server pair status,
and explains how to congure settings, shutdown options, and Split-Brain Avoidance.
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