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Table Of Contents
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Administrator's Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Monitoring
- Supported vCenter Server Heartbeat Clients
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Console
- vSphere Web Client Plug-in
- vSphere Client Plug-in
- Server Monitoring
- Network Monitoring
- Application Monitoring
- Performance Monitoring
- Monitoring Data Replication
- Managing vCenter Server Heartbeat
- Server Configuration Wizard
- Managing Heartbeat Settings
- Managing Application Protection
- Managing Services
- Managing Tasks
- Managing Rules
- Managing Plug-ins
- Managing Data Protection
- Maintaining vCenter Server Heartbeat
- vCenter Server Heartbeat Diagnostics
- Collecting Diagnostic Logs
- Two Active or Two Passive Nodes
- Synchronization Failures
- Registry Status is Out-of-Sync
- Channel Drops
- Performance Issues
- Passive Node 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
3 Select the Heartbeat tab of vSphere Client.
4 When prompted to acknowledge the Security Alert, click Yes to proceed.The Heartbeat Plug-in is displayed.
Figure 2- 2. vSphere Client Heartbeat Plug-in
Performing a Failover Using vSphere Client
Procedure
1 Select the Heartbeat tab of vSphere Client.
2 Click either Make Primary Active or Make Secondary Active as appropriate.
3 When prompted accept the security certificate to complete the operation.
Note Each time you perform a Make Active operation from the vSphere Client you must accept the
security certificate. After performing a Make Active operation, the Heartbeat tab may fail to display properly.
To update the Heartbeat tab, restart vSphere Client.
After a failover, should vSphere Client fail to authenticate when it attempts to connect, select the use
Windows Credentials checkbox.
Starting or Stopping Replication Using vSphere Client
Procedure
1 Select the Heartbeat tab of vSphere Client.
2 Click either Stop Replication or Start Replication as appropriate.
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