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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
8Data Protection
vCenter Server Heartbeat can protect many permutations or combinations of le structures on the active server
by the use of custom Inclusion and Exclusion lters congured by the administrator.
The lter driver identies les to protect and disk I/O operations to intercept and replicate to the passive server.
Use this driver to lter les for inclusion in or exclusion from the replication process. By default, vCenter
Server Heartbeat protects a folder called Protected on the system partition.
Note vCenter Server Heartbeat forbids replicating certain les and folders by using a veto. If an Inclusion
lter includes any of those les or folders, the entire lter is vetoed, even if an Exclusion lter is used to prevent
replication of those les and folders. Examples of folders are the vCenter Server Heartbeat installation directory
or the system32 folder. 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 le protection.
This chapter includes the following topics:
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“Replication,” on page 69
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“File Filters,” on page 74
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“Automatic Filter Discovery,” on page 75
Replication
You can view replication status and manage data replication using the Data: Replication page.
Registry and File Synchronization Status
Two panes near the top of the Data: Replication page in vCenter Server Heartbeat Console, File System
Synchronization Status and Registry Synchronization Status, provide graphical status information.
The synchronization status for each le or folder can read one three dierent values depending on the verication
and synchronization states as described in Table 8-1.
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